Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword

A fairly straightforward Monday: Jean came tantalizingly close to breaking the 5-minute barrier, while Mike ... did not. For the deets, as in who knew what when, and who thought that CANON should be spelled with 2 N's, we cordially invite you to subscribe / download / enjoy.

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We're back! After a week on the French Riviera (or possibly Green Bay, they are easily confused). Speaking of confused, today's crossword was a doozie, with a Pyramid, a Pharaoh, and much, much, more. We've got all the analysis you've been craving inside, so download and enjoy!

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Saturdays are generally regarded as the toughest crosswords of the week, and today's is an exemplar: but like the best of the Saturdays, it does not flood the grid with cultural references, but just uses witty cluing. Who cannot but applaud clues such as 20D, Something often seen with trunks, BARECHEST? Or 37A, Came out of the blue?, CHEEREDUP? Those are just a few of a bevy of brilliant clues and answers.

Next week we are on hiatus, but fortunately our entire back catalog is available for you to work through: in the meantime, keep working on those crosswords, and we'll be back next Sunday.

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Today's crossword was a toughie. Both Jean & Mike flailed about in the northwest corner, where some deliciously EVIL (and we say that in the best possible sense of the word, and also because EVIL happened to be one of the answers!) cluing made for a hard slog. The rest of the grid was no cakewalk either, but still, we like a challenge, and doff our hats to the constructors, and would rate this a definite 5 squares on the JAMCR scale.

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A highly satisfactory Thursday offering, with a brilliant theme, and the sort of terrifically crisp cluing that suggests Jeff Chen is involved. This is definitely a 5 squares on the JAMCR scale, and to find out what it takes to get into that rarefied echelon, download / subscribe / enjoy!

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Today's crossword was just ducky! And not that we're trying to SHIRK our responsibility, but in order to AVOID any spoiler alerts, and DODGE controversy, we will eschew any further references to a theme that is guaranteed to quack you up!

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A fun Tuesday crossword, with a witty theme. Jean tore through the crossword in 10:10, Mike, naticked by 55A, Gymnast Aly with three Olympic gold medals, RAISMAN, intersecting 52D, Christine of "The Blacklist", LAHTI, fared ... well, not well, but he's done (waaaaaaaaay) worse. For all the deets, as well as the outcome of today's Triplet Tuesday, download/subscribe/enjoy.

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Any crossword that manages to bring the likes of STEVEURKEL, KIMMYGIBBLER, WILSONWILSON, and FREDROGERS into one grid has to be applauded, and we are happy to oblige! For all the deets, just subscribe and/or download and/and enjoy.

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A  Sunday crossword that Loki would've approved of, the grid was brimming with tricky word puzzles. Mike somehow got through it, but it was touch-and-go for the longest time, and the longest time was just how much he spent on this crossword! Fortunately, we have prepared a précis just for you (and all the crossword aficionados in your life).

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A challenging Saturday crossword ... Jean had to dig deeply into her encyclopedic knowledge of, well, everything, to claw her way to victory, and Mike, well, JEEPERSCREEPERS! And to explain what that's about, as well as all the other really, really fine clues in today's crossword, all you need to do is subscribe / download / listen up.

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