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Puzzle #89: Room Service (contest crossword!)

 PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #8, and it’s a contest crossword! The meta answer is a beverage. If you think you know the answer, send it to us at ****@crosswordnexus.com (email redacted as the contest is now over) by noon Eastern on Wednesday, April 19th. We’ll randomly choose one…

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Puzzle #88: A Day at the Races (with Dan Schwartz!)

 PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #7, with special guest Dan Schwartz, whose blog you should definitely check out if you’re unfamiliar. We’re both big Marx Brothers fans, so it was synergy to get this together. My favorite type of collaborative theme is when both parties bounce ideas around until…

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Puzzle #86: Kirby (and charity puzzle pack announcement!)

 PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Last year we raised some money for Children’s Hospital L.A. by offering a suite of crossword and variety puzzles to anyone who donated, and we’re happy to say we’re doing it again this year! Donate any amount at my personal fundraising page and we’ll send you a…

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Puzzle #85: Animal Crackers (with Norah Sharpe!)

 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 #83: Go West (with Brooke Husic!)

 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…

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Puzzle #82: The Big Store

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #4! I am sure I have seen this movie, but it made absolutely no impression on me. Not their best one. But I think this puzzle is pretty good! Thanks go out to Will Eisenberg for testing this for me. Our puzzle today is pretty…

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Puzzle #78: Horse Feathers (feat. Ben Zimmer!)

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 #77: A Night at the Opera

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s Marx Brothers puzzle #2! In general I don’t like movies, but I love this one. Possibly my favorite movie of all time. This is a theme conceit I’ve been wanting to try for a while! I think it came out pretty good, though it may be on…

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Puzzle #76: Double Elision

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s a crossword. It’s by me. If you like crosswords by me, you might like this one. Norah test-solved this one! Did you see her super-cool Lemonade Disco puzzle? Enjoy the solve!

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Puzzle #74: Ode to Joystick (feat. Bob Weisz!)

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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