(There’s also LAX Crossword, which offers answers and clue explanations.) Times Crossword Corner blog to keep you up to date on that puzzle, breaking every puzzle down clue by clue. If you’re a fan of the Los Angeles Times Crossword, there’s the terrific L.A. Of course, the NYT crossword isn’t the only game in town. Oh, and if you’re looking for some terrific reviews of the NYT Mini Crossword, check out this great Instagram account! His blog is probably not for everybody, but he remains one of the most influential voices in crossword reviewing today. Rex Parker’s blog can be more critical of Times puzzles - as we’ve said before, he borders on the curmudgeonly - but he has terrific advice about grid construction, theme entries, and more that several constructors have told me proved to be invaluable in their early days learning to construct. People occasionally accuse XWord Info of being too favorable to the puzzles/constructors, but I think they call it right down the middle, and there have been times where reviewers and constructors leveled stern criticism at a puzzle’s editorial process OR how it was discussed on XWord Info itself. XWord Info is my go-to for details on construction and a fair, informative review. Wordplay is the official New York Times crossword blog, and not only do you get great analysis from knowledgeable minds, but you get live solve-alongs, insight from constructors, and more. So today, I want to discuss some top-notch blogs that discuss and review the daily crosswords!įor the New York Times crossword alone, there’s Wordplay, XWord Info, and Rex Parker. Well, to be honest, there are already several crossword blogs doing a dynamite job of covering those. After all, we try to cover all things puzzles and games here - great clues, trivia, brain teasers, puzzles in pop culture, interviews, game reviews, how to’s, puzzle history, the Crossword Mysteries - so why not the top crossword outlets? She’s also the author of the book “We Do This 'Til We Free Us.” She talked with Jeremy Scahill at the Intercept about that book here.Occasionally, we’ll get a message from a PuzzleNationer who wonders why we don’t review the daily New York Times crossword or some of the other prominent daily newspaper crosswords. She posts at the account which is often locked, but I’d recommend following her there if you get the chance. I realize that Twitter isn’t always the healthiest space one can visit online, but Mariame Kaba is one of the most insightful voices on it, in my opinion. Mario as a character when I unlocked him in “Super Smash Bros. I never played the original game but became aware of Dr. MARIO.” It’s similar to “Tetris” but it has a medical motif. That would be the Ottawa Senators of the NHL. I have seen people playing this game in the park, but never knew what its name was. I also didn’t know Ernie Els owned his own winery until now. Count this as a fact I did not know until I wrote this puzzle. Here’s a clip from one of the episodes about how he helps a real estate agent rebrand by convincing her to become the “ghost realtor.” It’s real-life cringe humor and some of the results are hilarious. I became familiar with this series, and Nathan Fielder’s newer docu-comedy series, “The Rehearsal” just last year when a friend showed me some episodes. In today’s clue, you just have to take the clue at its most literal meaning by finding a synonym of “serious.” For instance, is a command in regular speech for telling someone to leave, but in crosswords, that might be a clue for the answer DRUM. An exclamation point, however, is usually meant as a command for you to take the clue literally. A question mark in a clue is a signal for a pun or wordplay of some kind, where you twist the meaning of a word in the clue to get an answer that you may not expect. Exclamation points in clues serve an interesting function that’s a little bit different than other punctuation marks.
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