Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword

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LISTENUP - it's an Alex-Eaton Salners crossword, and it's a DARNED good one, we DARESAY, AWASH with a BEVY of fine clues that will TAX you, LEARNED listener.  It turns out that this is our 99th episode, so tomorrow's your chance to win a Jean & Mike Do the New York Times Crossword t-shirt. Just drop us a line, as soon as the 100th episode hits the internet, and the first to reac...

An epic Saturday, with lots oft tricky and amusing cluing that won't drive you to RAGEQUIT, and when you solve it you'll feel like you're INHEAVEN, HAH, HAH. Our 100th podcast is coming up -- and the first lucky listener to email us at crosswordpodcast@icloud.com after it drops will win a free Jean and Mike Do The New York Times Crossword t-shirt, so get ready for that. We love feed...

A fine Friday effort by Rachel Fabi. With something for the Geeks (THEMANDALORIAN and TURINGTEST), the Greeks (ACTAEON and HARPY), and some droll cluing (Force Feed == RATIONS), we feel that this crossword was really the cat's MEOW. We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook , so feel free...

A tough crossword with a theme that was most definitely not SPELLEDOUT. Jean was able to succeed thanks to some good, ahem, GAUSSes, but Mike had no IDEA, LOL. We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook , so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

Jean cruises through today's crossword without breaking a sweat, while Mike struggles against Morpheus, and wins -- eventually. We give it a 4.5 squares on the JAMCR scale. Get ready for our 100th episode celebration! The first listener to email us after our 100th episode gets published will win a coveted Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword t-shirt. What's the email address?...

An elegant tribute to CHADWICKBOSEMAN that leverages the fact that the center letter of his name, K, is coincidentally also the center of THEBLACKPANTHER. There are numerous references to that superlative MARVEL movie, we give it a 5 squares on the JAMCR scale. While it didn't take SUPERHUMANPOWER to write this crossword, it did take a HERO, that being author Jeremy Newton. And, of course, it...

An A+ effort by Daniel Larsen and The Wave Learning Festival Crossword Class? QUITERIGHT, this puzzle definitely ENDEARS, there were no UGLI naticks at all to rattle the old BEAN, so we're KEEN to see more from Daniel Larsen et. al. We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook , so feel free...

An amazing bit of crossword construction by Sam Trabucco that DARTS from one high point to the next, this puzzle left us AGOG, and will definitely not be the subject of MIXEDREVIEWS: we give it a 5 squares on the JAMCR scale. We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook , so feel free to drop by t...

NEVERFEAR, Robyn Weintraub is here, with a nice Saturday crossword -- not too easy (you definitely couldn't do this HALFASLEEP), but not so hard as to render you WOEBEGONE. Jean had a spot of bother at a RAREBOOKSTORE, and Mike believes that all jokes should be in TOODTASTE, but both still rate it a perfect 5.0 on the JAMCR scale We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love liste...

Even though this puzzle might have left you INAPANIC, thinking there was NOTAHOPE, IDARESAY that the team that made this fine Friday crossword, Anne and Daniel Larsen, are a DREAMACT.  We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook , so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

It's a dANDy Thursday crossword, YESSIREE, with sparklingly clever clues, HOORAH! When it comes to Simeone Seigel's talents as a crossword writer, let's just say that we are BELIEBERs. We give it a 5 squares on the JAMCR scale. There is a new app in the App Store, Crossword Replay, that lets you solve a crossword and then replay it, so you can see all the twists and turns you took....

This crossword was definitely not a NOTHINGBURGER, rather the USUAL high quality NYTimes fare that will have you grinning from EAR to, um, EAR.  We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook , so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

A riotous Tuesday crossword, and how often can you say that? Technically, as often as you want, but this time it's justified, thanks to Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau's very witty puzzle. You're probably in a hurry to get to the podcast and hear all about it, to which we say KEEPYOURPANTSON! It's Tip Tuesday, so listen up for some great ideas on how to become a better crossword...

If you feel skITTIsh about doing the New York Times Crosswords -- and there's no shame in admITTIng it -- we would argue that this would be a fITTIng one to start solving. It has lots of fun words, and an interesting theme, that you have likely already surmised made it wITTIer than most Mondays. Remember, to start working on the puzzles, just go to nytimes.com/crosswords, subscribe, and you&a...

It's, er, time to, er, um, er, talk about the Sunday crossword, which is decidedly lacking in ers, so we thought we'd add a few extras here to make up for it. Yes, the theme involves various common phrases for which ER has been removed, and the clue leads to that ER-less answer, in a humorous way. For instance, 23A - Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat? - is HAPPILYEVERAFT,...

An epic crossword, lots of long and obscure clues, just like you'd hope for and expect on a Saturday. Both Mike and Jean got stymied in various places - Jean at 1D, Band with the 1970's hit "Come and Get Your Love", REDBONE, and Mike at 18A, "Who Shot Mr. Burns on the Classic TV Episode, "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", MAGGIE.  There were lots of fun, fascinating words -...

A sparking crossword by Caitlin Reid and Erik Agard, with great clues -- we give it a perfect 5.0 squares on the JAMCR scale!  We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. Also, we're on FaceBook , so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

Today's crossword features what might possibly be the 4 most recognizable notes in all of western music, D, D, D, EFlat. They might not be recognizable, just lying there on the page, but put an orchestra behind them and you'll instantly recognize the beginning of BEETHOVEN's 5th symphony. That was just one of several of the great master's SYMPHONIC works that made its way into...

99 bottles of clues on the wall, 99 bottles of clues, take one down, pass it around ... well, you get the idea: this crossword had a theme that involved the number 99. EINSTEINIUM, NAMESOFALLAH, WAYNEGRETSKY and LUFTBALLONS were featured, and our one regret was that they couldn't work in a reference to BARBARAFELDON (Agent 99 on the old time television series, Get Smart).  Hopefully you got s...

A crossword in honor of ALFREDHITCHCOCK's most famous (?) movie, PSYCHO. For a while, Mike -- GASP! -- had NARY a clue in left central, but at LAST was able to TEASE out the answers. Jean, on the other hand, blazed through the entire shebang in 8 minutes!  Also, it's Tip Tuesday, so listen in for some hints as to how you can enhance your crossword solving prowess. We love feedback! Send...

The games a-FOOT, and to get so many references to FOOT in this crossword was no small feat, and would've taken a lot of WORK. Thanks to xwordinfo.com, we discover that AVA -- also seen in today's crossword -- has been seen 448 times before, whereas OREO -- surely the unofficial cookie of the New York Times Crossword -- has only appeared 431 times.  Tomorrow is Tip Tuesday (tm), so liste...

DOUBLE, DOUBLE, toil and trouble, that pretty much summarizes today's crossword, which Jean breezed through, but Mike got hung up on, on the shoals of IRENECARA. We rate it a 4.0 squares on the JAMCR scale. Want to talk about crossswords? We're ready to join in, drop us a line at crosswordpodcast@icloud.com. We love feedback! Send us a text... Contact Info: We love listener mail! Drop us...

If you've worked on this crossword for a while, and decided that ICANTGOON, its GAMEOVER, then listen to this podcast for some inspiration as we deliver spoilers at a BUGATTI-like pace (like that one -- and there's MORETOCOME). For example, Mike's favorite, 22A - Roman foeman (HUN), and Jean's favorite, 13D - Amazon deterrent (ONESTAR). There are more, however, so download and...

Ooh, a toughie (well, it's a Friday). Both Jean & Mike tore through 3/4 of the puzzle, like they were on SPREES, but then, well, let's just say that STOPSDEAD was an appropriate clue to lead into the ferocious bottom-right corner. Still, there was lots to LOVE about this crossword, including 13D - One of about 500 million needed to fill an olympic swimming pool (TEASPOON), and Mike&a...