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NYT Acrostic June 1, 2025
Posted on May 29, 2025May 26, 2025
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NYT Acrostic June 1, 2025

A Lotta Alliteration Countless crossword clues — plus Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck, […]

NYT Acrostic May 18, 2025
Posted on May 15, 2025May 15, 2025
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NYT Acrostic May 18, 2025

That’ll Be The Day In 2022, a documentary entitled The Day the Music Died appeared […]

NYT Acrostic May 4, 2025
Posted on May 1, 2025April 30, 2025
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NYT Acrostic May 4, 2025

But seriously, folks … Some years back, we had the pleasure of seeing Steve Martin […]

NYT Acrostic April 20, 2025
Posted on April 17, 2025April 11, 2025
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NYT Acrostic April 20, 2025

Reflection and Remembrance Most historians mark the end of the Vietnam War as having occurred […]

NYT Acrostic April 6, 2025
Posted on April 3, 2025March 31, 2025
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NYT Acrostic April 6, 2025

Native Tongues According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people […]

NYT Acrostic March 23, 2025
Posted on March 20, 2025March 16, 2025
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NYT Acrostic March 23, 2025

Can Something be Gained in Translation? In God’s Secretaries, Adam Nicolson presents the extraordinary history […]

NYT Acrostic March 9, 2025
Posted on March 6, 2025March 5, 2025
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NYT Acrostic March 9, 2025

The Modern Prometheus If you could magically meet someone from history, whom would you choose?  […]

NYT Acrostic February 23, 2025
Posted on February 20, 2025February 19, 2025
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NYT Acrostic February 23, 2025

Voice of the Violin Even without having read Proust, many people are aware that his […]

NYT Acrostic February 9, 2025
Posted on February 6, 2025February 8, 2025
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NYT Acrostic February 9, 2025

Food For Thought Last spring, we offered an acrostic based on a quotation from Christina […]

NYT Acrostic January 26, 2025
Posted on January 23, 2025January 23, 2025
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NYT Acrostic January 26, 2025

Please, Sir … This week’s quotation comes from an insightful 2002 biography of Charles Dickens […]

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  1. Carola on NYT Acrostic June 1, 2025June 1, 2025

    A quick solve for me, and besides the pleasures of encountering Romeo and Juliet and learning about alliteration in the…

  2. Edwin Hustead on NYT Acrostic June 1, 2025June 1, 2025

    A Towhee is not in the Sparrow species. Towhees and Sparrows belong to the Sparrow family but they are distinct…

  3. Marshall Walthew on NYT Acrostic June 1, 2025June 1, 2025

    I started slowly with this particular puzzle, which had a plethora of pitfalls. The single letters F and L appearing…

  4. Greg Schwed on NYT Acrostic June 1, 2025May 31, 2025

    Splendid fun, as usual. I knew something was tricky when two “gimme” answers (loose-leaf and twice-told) yielded f and l…

  5. David on NYT Acrostic June 1, 2025May 31, 2025

    Wow! The single letters and "star-cross'd" sure hung me up for a while (along with knowing few of the clues!)…

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