Every Sunday I solve your puzzle and read your commentary, and it makes a big difference hearing the behind-the-scenes story.
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 ...
The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and ...
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, ...
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 ...