0:27:42 Frannie and I split the work on this nice, meaty grid with an appropriately macabre and Halloweenish mini-theme of "The Cask ...

0:24:16 A good ol' Thursday rebus puzzle, just like I like! I was temporarily thrown off by the image in the black squares, which look...

0:13:29 A pleasing theme today, running all around the grid with a cross in the middle. It seems to me, someone who has never constructe...

0:08:18 Odd theme today related to the NBA (48A: Org. whose only members with nonplural names appear at the ends of 17-, 25-, 410, and 56-...

0:07:07 This is a pretty straightforward Monday puzzle, with a pretty weak theme. DICKVANDYKE (21A: Eponymous star of a 1960s sitcom, the ...

WINNER'S CIRCLE SCHLUBS (1A: Boors) is a very nice entry to today's grid. The rest of the Acrosses in that NW corner are also very...

untimed We held off on the review of this puzzle until tonight in deference to the contest, which ended at 6pm. Now all may be revealed. ...