A short, fun and occasionally not unintentionally educational podcast in which two fans of the New York Times crossword describe their puzzle-solving travails.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - A crossword guaranteed to inspire some wishful thinking
16 mins; November 14, 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023 - This crossword is definitely worth a SOU ... and more!
12 mins; November 13, 2023
Sunday, November 12, 2023 - A crossword with CHIASMUS, DADGUMIT, and SALBANDO in the grid? What a GAS!
19 mins; November 12, 2023
Saturday, November 11, 2023 - Mountebanks and the Capulets? Yup, we'd like a MULLIGAN on that title!
18 mins; November 11, 2023
Friday, November 10, 2023 - Smoking a chesterfield, while wearing a chesterfield, and reclining on a chesterfield? It *can* be done!!
19 mins; November 10, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - This crossword was AOK!
16 mins; November 09, 2023
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a TRAPEZIST! 🎪
19 mins; November 08, 2023
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - A Ttttttterrific Tttttttttuesday Crossword!
15 mins; November 07, 2023
Monday, November 6, 2023 - AAH, what a crossword!
12 mins; November 06, 2023
Sunday, November 5, 2023 - This crossword's DABOMB, but it still *might* leave you TUCKEREDOUT
20 mins; November 05, 2023
Saturday, November 3, 2023 - ROOKS and FOUNTS and TAGINE, Oh, My!
19 mins; November 04, 2023
Friday, November 3, 2023 - Was this a fun Robyn Weintraub puzzle? YESSIREE!
14 mins; November 03, 2023
Thursday, November 2, 2023 - This crossword was definitely NOTTOOSHABBY
14 mins; November 02, 2023
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - MUIR, an adMUIRable national monument 🙄
13 mins; November 01, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - It's HALLOWEEN - outside *and* in the grid!
14 mins; October 31, 2023
Monday, October 30, 2023 - Kenneth Cortes had a BRIGHTIDEA, and, lo, a crossword was born!
14 mins; October 30, 2023
Sunday, October 29, 2023 - OutKast and Black Star and TPAIN, Oh, My!
23 mins; October 29, 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023 - All hail SAMTHESHAM 🎶
20 mins; October 28, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023 - City of Big Shoulders (Chicago)? Meet City of Big Meadows (Reno).
14 mins; October 27, 2023
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - ELSIE the MOOCOW makes an appearance, and we're going to milk that for all it's worth 😀
16 mins; October 26, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - This was an awesome crossword, BYGUM!
18 mins; October 25, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - LUTES, UKES and PECS, either crossword answers or the weirdest law firm ever 😀
18 mins; October 24, 2023
Monday, October 23, 2023 - Marisa TOMEI, absolutely no relation, even phonetically, to Mel Tormé
14 mins; October 23, 2023
Sunday, October 22, 2023 - Quick, IGOR, fetch me an amusing podcast episode title!
14 mins; October 22, 2023
Saturday, October 21, 2023 - No SECONDOPINION needed - this crossword was great!
13 mins; October 21, 2023
Friday, October 20, 2023 - LIBERALARTS are *everywhere* (including in today's grid!)
9 mins; October 20, 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - That VIBIST is giving off really good vibes 😀
19 mins; October 19, 2023
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - Be prepared to BEAMAZED, because this crossword? ITSMAGIC!
9 mins; October 18, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - Fun to say, but almost impossible to YEET a Yeti 🙄
16 mins; October 17, 2023
Monday, October 16, 2023 - This was a fine crossword, BYGUM
12 mins; October 16, 2023
Sunday, October 15, 2023 - The PLAINTRUTH is that this crossword may leave you with a GLAZEDEXPRESSION 😀 🍩
22 mins; October 15, 2023
Saturday, October 14, 2023 - Ah, that delicious aroma of PANZEROTTI!
17 mins; October 14, 2023
Friday, October 13, 2023 - This crossword is a real SCREAMO 😀
16 mins; October 13, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023 - Medic!
28 mins; October 12, 2023
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - This crossword is really cookin'
14 mins; October 11, 2023
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - Time to take in some FANSUBS!
17 mins; October 10, 2023
Monday, October 9, 2023 - Look, up there in the sky ... it's a bird ... it's a plane ... no, it's an UBERMENSCH ??
10 mins; October 09, 2023
Sunday, October 8, 2023 - It's a superlative Sid Sivakumar Sunday spectacular, woo-hoo!
17 mins; October 08, 2023
Saturday, October 7, 2023 - So sorry, we sunk the DORY 😱
23 mins; October 07, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023 - Look, yonder, 'tis a tantalizing TANSY 🙄
14 mins; October 06, 2023
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - Tarana Burke, creator of the #METOO movement
18 mins; October 05, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - Adios, OTIOSE, you are ... superfluous 🙄
16 mins; October 04, 2023
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - Snakes on a plane? No, in the grid!
13 mins; October 03, 2023
Monday, October 2, 2023 - The Argos of crosswords 👀
12 mins; October 02, 2023
Sunday, October 1, 2023 - And the Oscar goes to ... Jeffrey Lease!?!
16 mins; October 01, 2023
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - Like SPUMONI, this crossword had many layers 😀
20 mins; September 30, 2023
Friday, September 29, 2023 - Beware the SUNDAYSCARIES!
19 mins; September 29, 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023 - The key point about today's crossword involves ... keys!
19 mins; September 28, 2023
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - NOAMCHOMSKY weighs in on "colorless green ideas" -- we kid you not!
16 mins; September 27, 2023
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - The McDonald's app better have a HAMBURGERMENU 😀
20 mins; September 26, 2023
Monday, September 25, 2023 - This crossword's the living END!
13 mins; September 25, 2023
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - Joe Fagliano and Christina Iverson would like to tell you a story: once a pun a time ...
11 mins; September 24, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - AMIDALA and DARTH walk into a bar ...
11 mins; September 23, 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023 - Let's get this straight ... there's a penguin in a bodice sipping a BUDICE?
18 mins; September 22, 2023
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - A crossword that's for the birds -- literally!
11 mins; September 21, 2023
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - Don't mock the MOCS!
16 mins; September 20, 2023
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - SESQUIPEDALIAN - runner up in the "Most Difficult Word to Slip into a Conversation" contest 😀
19 mins; September 19, 2023
Monday, September 18, 2023 - Move along, move along, nothing ATOLL to see here 🙄
14 mins; September 18, 2023
Sunday, September 17, 2023 - Win, lose or ... PUSH?
17 mins; September 17, 2023
Saturday, September 16, 2023 - BALDCAP, de rigeur for the follicly well-endowed Mr. Clean impersonators
23 mins; September 16, 2023
Friday, September 15, 2023 - Will you enjoy this podcast? SIGNSPOINTTOYES 😀
12 mins; September 15, 2023
Thursday, September 13, 2023 - Thar's buried treasure in that there grid, and X marks the spot 😀
16 mins; September 14, 2023
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - Today's crossword was, in NATO alphabet parlance, Golf Romeo Echo Alpha Tango!
13 mins; September 13, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - NARUTO, Ninja-in-training and manga superstar!
18 mins; September 12, 2023
Monday, September 11, 2023 - The eyes (or perhaps we should say the I's) have it!
15 mins; September 11, 2023
Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 🎶 You take the high road, and we'll take the low road 🎶
21 mins; September 10, 2023
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - Whim whams, whim whams, whim whams, we could say that all day 😀
9 mins; September 09, 2023
Friday, September 8, 2023 - It's a Friday ... hence the CLEARASMUD clues
17 mins; September 08, 2023
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - For the record, and like today's crossword, this podcast was *not* AIGENERATED 🤖
15 mins; September 07, 2023
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - BAGEL, a delicious breadstuff and an aptly-named tennis score
16 mins; September 06, 2023
Tuesday, September 5, 2023 - FRUITBAT, one of Abner Doubleday's biggest mistakes 😀
14 mins; September 05, 2023
Monday, September 4, 2023 - 'Twas no BLOOP to include BLOOP in today's crossword 🙄
11 mins; September 04, 2023
Sunday, September 3, 2023 - 🎶 FUGUE for Tinhorns 🎶
18 mins; September 03, 2023
Saturday, September 2, 2023 - ATOAST to a crossword that BRIMS with fine clues!
13 mins; September 02, 2023
Friday, September 1, 2023 - Ready? Set? OKGO!
17 mins; September 01, 2023
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - Yee-haw, another crossword with HOOHA 🙄
12 mins; August 31, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - A novel crossword
13 mins; August 30, 2023
Monday, August 29, 2023 - SELFHEAL, a sure cure for what ails you!
17 mins; August 29, 2023
Monday, August 28, 2023 - WAHOO, GOSH and TOOT - 3 words in today's grid or a famed legal firm? You be the judge!
11 mins; August 28, 2023
Sunday, August 27, 2023 - Don't go criticizing ÉPÉE's diacritics! 🙄
14 mins; August 27, 2023
Saturday, August 26, 2023 - Sprechen sie GNOMISH?
13 mins; August 26, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023 - LINDT, in your pantry, but hopefully not in your dryer!
13 mins; August 25, 2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - Hats off to whoever invented the KEPI 🙄
14 mins; August 24, 2023
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - Feeling peckish? This crossword won't help!
20 mins; August 23, 2023
Wednesday, August 22, 2023 - Don't freeze when someone offers you a FROSÉ
15 mins; August 22, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023 - Woo-hoo, it's a HOOHA! 😀
10 mins; August 21, 2023
Sunday, August 20, 2023 - NOM, NOM, this was one delicious crossword!
22 mins; August 20, 2023
Saturday, August 17, 2023 - No need to GILDTHELILY, this crossword is a real RUSH!
15 mins; August 19, 2023
Friday, August 18, 2023 - ELGAR and YANNI ... together? again??
16 mins; August 18, 2023
Thursday, August 17, 2023 - Time to celebrate, Erik Agard is in the house!
13 mins; August 17, 2023
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - How much would a COTE cost? We'd like a COTE quote!
13 mins; August 16, 2023
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 - FLYERS? FLIERS? PHLYERS? Decisions, decisions!
19 mins; August 15, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023 - This crossword can GOTOELEVEN!
14 mins; August 14, 2023
Sunday, August 12, 2023 - Today's crossword was brimming with INSPO!
21 mins; August 13, 2023
Saturday, August 12, 2023 - LABNEH - government facility or pita dip? You be the judge 😀
18 mins; August 12, 2023
Friday, August 11, 2023 - Check out today's crossword - YOUWONTREGRETIT!
13 mins; August 11, 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023 - Get ready to hop on the (re)bus!
16 mins; August 10, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - Jean ARP, come to MOMMA, er, we mean MOMA 🙄
13 mins; August 09, 2023
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - Hear ye, hear ye, announcing a new podcast segment, WYMA!
15 mins; August 08, 2023
Monday, August 7, 2023 - AYE, NOONE can eclipse SAILORMOON!
