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Month: May 2023

Puzzle #95: Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow (a “patchwork quilt” puzzle)

PUZZLE LINKS Easier: iPuz Download | Online Solver Harder: PDF Download | Online Solver I’m getting slightly obsessed with this puzzle type. It’s just so pretty! Here’s how you solve: Answers in this puzzle are entered in the rectangular areas, either delineated by colors or by bars. Answers are entered left to right, row by…

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Acrostic #8: Film Schooled

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Puzzle #94: Speak Up!

 PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Here it is, the puzzle that was famously (?) accepted by the New York Times, and then, months later, rejected by the New York Times. I later repurposed it for Crosswords LA, and now I’m using it here. So, it’s had a good run, despite its rocky…

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Puzzle #93: Not Half Bad (a “Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad” puzzle)

 PUZZLE LINKS: PDF Download | Online Solver It’s been a while since we’ve run one of these — it’s a “Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad” puzzle! This is a puzzle type invented by our friend Joon, and one we really like. Remind me how this works? Each answer in this puzzle is a lowercase…

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Acrostic #7: Wild Bruce Chase

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Puzzle #92: NES Baseball

 PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Let’s celebrate two things today: one is the return of baseball and two is the open beta release of Ingrid, the crossword construction software that allowed me to make this puzzle with both black squares and bars. Happy to have both things in my life! Today’s grid…

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