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

and I had to rely on too many deep-cut names and phrases for comfort — the inevitable result of frantically trying the year prior to start and finish a Sunday-size crossword in a few hours.

Avoiding duplications like that can be the worst game of whack-a-mole that crossword constructors play all the time. As if that wasn’t a big enough hassle, I also made things far more ...

Politics and football: Two forms of modern blood sport that I combined into one crossword. Six football-related phrases have been redefined in a political context. When I started building the puzzle, ...

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 ...

It’s Oscar night, so it’s time for a movie crossword. Twelve answers are clued as though they are remakes of certain films. What makes them “remakes”? They’re anagrams of the movie title ...

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 ...