Won’t you take me to the strangest of places?

Every Sunday I solve your puzzle and read your commentary, and it makes a big difference hearing the behind-the-scenes story.

Good luck to everyone competing in the inaugural Westwords Crossword Tournament today! I’ll be receiving the set of puzzles to solve after it’s finished, so if you’re competing, don’t post ...

or $10 with an additional two puzzles as a bonus. Politics and football: Two forms of modern blood sport that I combined into ...

We don’t have two of every animal in this crossword as in the tale of the ark, but it’s the second of two meta answers to ...

So, last week was the Midwest Crossword Tournament. I won’t give any specific spoilers about the puzzles themselves, but my ...

I played a little with that convention in today’s puzzle, although it’s ultimately a standard crossword rather than a cryptic ...

Thank goodness I pulled myself out of that death spiral; otherwise I’d still be trying to make the puzzle. Here’s a heads-up ...

122A: [Elliot James Birnholz ... big enough to solve this puzzle yet, but it’ll be there waiting for him when he gets a little older. By then I might be writing a crossword called “Captain ...

Eight familiar phrases have had some letters shifted to the end to turn them into wacky articles of clothing. The revealer that originally inspired this theme is at 65A: [Making an appearance ...