While I didn’t intend this to be as challenging as last month’s “Time Travel” meta, I’ll still give a series of hints before ...

Politics and football: Two forms of modern blood sport that I combined into one crossword. Six football-related phrases have been redefined in a political context. When I started building the ...

Good luck to everyone competing in the inaugural Westwords Crossword Tournament today! I’ll be receiving the set of puzzles to solve after it’s finished, so if you’re competing, don’t post ...

Cryptic crossword solvers are accustomed to seeking out words in clues that might signal an anagram. In cryptic circles these ...

Let’s see if I can remember how this whole “writing crosswords” thing goes since ... 122A: [Elliot James Birnholz, e.g., whom Captain Obvious is addressing in this puzzle] is CHILD.

It’s Oscar night, so it’s time for a movie crossword. Twelve answers are clued as though they are remakes of certain films. What makes them “remakes”? They’re anagrams of the movie title ...

Eight familiar phrases have had some letters shifted to the end to turn them into wacky articles of clothing. The revealer that originally inspired this theme is at 65A: [Making an appearance ...

So, last week was the Midwest Crossword Tournament. I won’t give any specific spoilers about the puzzles themselves, but my brother Justin and I competed as a team in the pairs division.

and I had to rely on too many deep-cut names and phrases for comfort — the inevitable result of frantically trying the year prior to start and finish a Sunday-size crossword in a few hours.