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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 […]

NYT Acrostic January 12, 2025
Posted on January 9, 2025January 8, 2025
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NYT Acrostic January 12, 2025

The Last Frontier Dave, having spent virtually his entire youth in the eastern United States, […]

NYT Acrostic December 29, 2024
Posted on December 26, 2024December 22, 2024
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NYT Acrostic December 29, 2024

Memories … As the end of the year approaches, we often spend time both looking […]

NYT Acrostic December 15, 2024
Posted on December 12, 2024December 10, 2024
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NYT Acrostic December 15, 2024

Peace, Land, Bread Our daughter, Becca, who also constructs acrostics and is our initial beta […]

NYT Puzzle Mania Acrostic December 1, 2024
Posted on December 1, 2024November 27, 2024
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NYT Puzzle Mania Acrostic December 1, 2024

Water, Water, Everywhere: Dive In! Welcome, new solvers.  For the last few years, our extended […]

NYT Acrostic December 1, 2024
Posted on November 28, 2024November 25, 2024
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NYT Acrostic December 1, 2024

Homeward Bound The Odyssey enjoys a richly deserved prime spot in our literary canon.  Homer’s […]

NYT Acrostic November 17, 2024
Posted on November 14, 2024November 16, 2024
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NYT Acrostic November 17, 2024

What’s Opera, Doc? Big voices, big egos, big emotions, big budgets: opera goes all out.  […]

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  1. Dave and Jane on NYT Acrostic May 3, 2026May 5, 2026

    Hi Heather -- Thanks for doing our acrostic! We use Merriam-Webster as our go-to dictionary. You'll find "homuncular" there! Jane…

  2. Heather H. on NYT Acrostic May 3, 2026May 5, 2026

    (*P.S. I guess your "homuncular" wouldn't be a back-formation but some other neologism ... or is it in a dictionary?…

  3. Heather H. on NYT Acrostic May 3, 2026May 5, 2026

    Another fun puzzle. Thank you! It took me awhile to let go of my concept of ivy and couch grass…

  4. Heather H. on NYT Acrostic May 3, 2026May 5, 2026

    I agree! All the "the's" did help. But "rowdydow" was one of the last clues I solved; I haven't heard…

  5. Dave and Jane on NYT Acrostic May 3, 2026May 4, 2026

    Congratulations on solving the puzzle, Amy. You can find the solution in next Sunday's New York Times Magazine (hard copy…

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