Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword
A short, fun and occasionally not unintentionally educational podcast in which two fans of the New York Times crossword describe their puzzle-solving travails.
Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword
Latest Episodes
Friday, October 30, 2026 — TLDR: Great + Great = Awesome
Individually, Robyn Weintraub and Rafael Musa can write great crosswords, but put them together and we have the living embodiment of the axiom that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, i.e.,
Thursday, October 29, 2026 — Uh, Oh, The Streak Stalker Is Back😉😱
Sam Ezersky usually shows up on Saturdays, so it's a bit of a surprise, and unnerving, to see him here on a Thursday. Fortunately, he left most of his heavy cruciverbial artiller...
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 — Boo!😳👻
The old-time radio show "Lights Out" always opened with a fabulous bit of reverse psychology: "Lights Out brings you stories of the supernatural - and the supernormal, dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We tell you this...
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 — Yes, Everybody's Favorite Extinct Mammoth Is Back ... Er, at Least in the NYTimes Crossword
Today's episode had a few edgier clues, as one might expect when Jeff Chen's name is in the byline. 54A, Deviate from the herd, GOROGUE, comes to mind; 11D, Words said with reser...
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I had to unsubscribe from your podcast because you give too many spoilers away in the title. Sometimes I haven’t done the crossword yet and I already see some of the answers in my feed and I don’t like that.
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