Untimed, about 45 minutes Completed with my mother in NYC. A story of two halves of a crossword puzzle. The diagonal split things pretty w...

21:57 I found this an odd puzzle. On my first passthrough, I had a number of down answers entered (incorrectly in several cases), but almo...

12:52 Before I figured out the theme as a whole, I came across 20A: Best Picture between "The Last Emperor" and "Driving Mi...

7:16 My Wednesday time is faster than my Tuesday time this week. So this puzzle is a neat whirligig of theme answers, all surrounding th...

7:21 Definitely a long solving time for a Tuesday, but the puzzle didn't feel difficult. But let's talk about that theme. Clever, ...

5:02 It's a sassy puzzle, really. The kind of upstart that likes to show off its knowledge. Like those "children who are up on da...

Twist Ending This went smoothly and easily, solved with my mother on a Sunday morning in NYC. The theme is straightforward, and obvious fr...