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
Saturday, October 31, 2026 — Booyah, It's an Erik Agard and Brendan Emmett Quigley Tag Team! 😀
In a highly apt bit of Halloween scheduling — thanks, Will! — today's crossword was built by two of the scariest constructors on the NYTimes' roster, Erik Agard and Brendan Emmet...
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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Re: [Two-point play in American football] : SAFETY What Jean described is a two point conversion (aka point after touchdown.) Both are worth two points, but a SAFETY is scored by the defensive team when they tackle an offensive ball carrier in his own end zone; Gregory Ross
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