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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #6, once again featuring one of my absolute favorite collaborators, Shannon Rapp, who you may know as Norah Sharpe. The theme here is all Shannon’s, as is the theme density she was able to wrangle into this one. Too many good clues of hers…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #5, and this time we’re featuring the incomparable Brooke Husic, aka Xandra Ladee! If you have somehow never heard of Brooke, I envy all the good stuff you are about to discover, from her blog puzzles to her work at other outlets. Along with…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #3 features language guy Ben Zimmer, and without giving too much away, this theme is right up his alley. We had a lot of fun working on this and we think you’ll like it too! Oh, and if you don’t understand the theme, maybe give…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Heck yeah, it’s the first acrostic of 2023 and I’m delighted to say it features the one and only Kate Chin Park! This was a super fun one to work on and we think the end result is a blast. We hope you agree! Thanks go out to…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Hello 2023! Let’s kick off the year with another collab, this time featuring Bob Weisz! He suggested the revealer in the fifteens-channel on Crosscord and we worked together to make it into the puzzle you’ve got today. We’re on the same cluing wavelength, so it was a real…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver We’re closing out the year with a collaboration with Will Eisenberg! This is our (checks notes) first collab together? Holy cow, how is that possible? Anyway, this was a super fun puzzle to work on with him, and hopefully we get to do it again some day. Thanks…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver I am delighted to bring you this collaboration with… well, I can’t tell you, because the meta answer is my co-constructor for this puzzle. Without giving too much away, I can tell you that they wrote all the clues for this puzzle, subject to some very light editing…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver New puzzle featuring the wonderful Howard Barkin! This collab started like so many of mine, with me pitching an extremely dumb idea to someone I thought might be receptive to it. To my delight, Howard accepted, and together we made this larger-than-usual puzzle. As you might have suspected,…
Read More “Puzzle #71: Just Another Vowel Progression Puzzle (with Howard Barkin!)” »
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver What? But it’s not Friday! Why is there a puzzle? Well, special occasion: there’s a walkout at the NYT today and in solidarity we’ve been asked not to engage with any NYT content, including the games. If you’re looking for the Spelling Bee, why not do Hexagon Lexicon…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver I half-jokingly pitched a very silly idea to Quiara a while back, and a few days later she said Yeah. We know this isn’t a super-serious puzzle, so we made the grid design and clues reflect it. We think it’s fun and test-solver Kate agrees! So we hope…
Read More “Puzzle #68: Stock Phrases (with Quiara Vasquez!)” »