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Publisher |: Crossnerds

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Crosswords,; Games & Hobbies

Categories Via RSS |: Games,; Leisure,; Society & Culture

Crossnerds is the world's best—er, nerdiest—crossword puzzle podcast. Editors, constructors, solvers, and allies deliver piping-hot takes on the New York Times crossword puzzle and the vast cruciuniverse of wordplay beyond.

Related Hashtags |: #crossword,; #nytxw,; #puzzle
Frequency |: Periodic
Explicit |: No

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134 Available Episodes (134 Total) / Average duration: 00:37:46

Date Duration Most Reviewed Highest Rated

134 Available Episodes (134 Total)Average duration: 00:37:46

Mar 04, 2023

00:32:33

Discussed! NYT crossword puzzles from Weds 2/22/23 (Adam Wagner), Thurs 2/23/23 (Joe Deeney), and Sun 2/28/23 (Will Nediger).

Disgust! Black History Month did not seem to matter to the NYTXW. But racial representation in crosswords matters deeply to us. Find our ep with Kameron Austin Collins here.

Also!

OPPO: British 1960s bae?
MS PAINT and Brooke's minicity masterpieces
Tourney szn approacheth! The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Boswords, and more TK.
- Reminisce with the original 'Nerds interviewing Erik Agard back in 2019, right before Erik won ACPT.
Anigrams.

Enjoying "Crossnerds"? Give us five ⭐️s in Spotify! Comment in Apple Podcasts! @ us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Or just keep listening. Or all. Ideally all. But we'll take any. Please and thank you!

Feb 10, 2023

00:28:11

SCENE: Season 8. Year of the Rabbit. 2023. Cut to: Rebecca & Brooke, Crossworld's most beloved showgirls, reviewing New York Times crossword puzzles. On this episode...they (we) peruse three (3) puzzles, from 2/2/23 - 2/4/23. Featuring.....:

Bisexual lighting
SARD: new year, new gem?!
On app-lessness
CUT TO THE CHASE: What, why, how. Jannings escapes ...
AVCX is not sending people to the moon
In 2022, 21% of NYTXWs were written by exclusively women (h/t XWord Info)

Dec 12, 2022

00:42:10

WORDPLAY ON THE FRITZ ⋇ DEFY THE HEGEMONY ⋇ THINK FOR YOURSELF ⋇ DO NOT PANIC

Happy holidaze and welcome back to the show! This week, Rebecca and Brooke calmly discuss four New York Times crossword puzzles published 11/22/2022 - 11/26/22. We also poke a stick at the curious corpus of 😱 LOGIC PUZZLES 😱 such as sudoku, ken ken, and star battles! We are two kra-z kids!!!

Plus:

Red alert! Reds are red, but violet may or may not be blue: colors, categories, and linguistic relativity vs. universalism in this Nautilus article by Chelsea Wald
PICTURE cards
How not to fall for the myth of crossword's 'unwritten rules'
The joy of connecting the dot dot dots
Theme queries: emotional risks vs. open submissions (again)

And the Inkubator is available at https://inkubatorcrosswords.com/.

Nov 19, 2022

00:37:03

In this ep, Rebecca and Brooke review New York Times crossword puzzles from 11/9/22 - 11/12/22.

Including!

The first-ever, no-details-necessary, void-where-prohibited Crossnerds challenge: ⭐ Guess Our Zodiac Signs! ⭐️ Tweet us @Crossnerds or message us to play.

Also!:

"Reduplicative names" puzzles
"Reduplicative": redundant?
Repeated clues: ALLOWED!
Non-semantic themes
Letterbanks
Two takes on GOTTI
Things that don't look like boats
Reverse reveals
The grammar of adverbs (disjuncts, e.g. "Hopefully...")
Evocativeness in clues
What sound owls make (hint: it is not "PEEP")

Sep 26, 2022