Solution to Evan Birnholz’s Jan. 5 crossword, ‘If I Wrote the Dictionary’
I met Merl Reagle for the first time at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) back in 2015. We didn’t talk for long ...
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Solution to Evan Birnholz’s Jan. 5 crossword, ‘If I Wrote the Dictionary’
I met Merl Reagle for the first time at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT ... More surprisingly, Jan. 5, 2025, would fall on a Sunday. If ever there were a good time to run a tribute ...
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SUNDAY CROSSWORD
At the Met, a troubled new ‘Aida’ struggles to rediscover itself ...
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Excerpts by Henry Lane Hull
Her consuming interest was the crossword puzzle, any crossword ... Merl was followed in the Post after a short gap during which his old puzzles were recycled, by Evan Birnholz, another constructor ...
Solution to Evan Birnholz’s Dec. 29 crossword, ‘Closing Performance: A Marching Bands Metapuzzle’
The three puzzles you encountered this weekend are a type called Marching Bands, which were invented by the Wall Street ...
Solution to Evan Birnholz’s Dec. 22 crossword, ‘Sign of the Times’
I now feel I should give you not just a simple warning but a big flashing neon sign at the top of today’s post: Next week’s puzzle on Dec. 29 has a meta, and it is not going to be a standard crossword ...