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.

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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)

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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/.

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