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NYT Acrostic November 3, 2024
Posted on October 31, 2024October 28, 2024
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NYT Acrostic November 3, 2024

How We Got Here We have all seen images like the one above, suggesting a […]

NYT Acrostic October 20, 2024
Posted on October 17, 2024October 15, 2024
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NYT Acrostic October 20, 2024

Rising Sun Like many Americans who have visited Japan, we have experienced initial “Lost in […]

NYT Acrostic October 6, 2024
Posted on October 3, 2024September 30, 2024
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NYT Acrostic October 6, 2024

Houston, We’ve Had a Problem By the time Apollo 13 launched from Cape Kennedy in […]

NYT Acrostic September 22, 2024
Posted on September 19, 2024September 17, 2024
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NYT Acrostic September 22, 2024

Yo-ho-ho! Piracy has been a serious scourge for thousands of years.  Because piracy threatens freedom […]

NYT Acrostic September 8, 2024
Posted on September 5, 2024September 2, 2024
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NYT Acrostic September 8, 2024

Are You Ready?

NYT Acrostic August 25, 2024
Posted on August 22, 2024August 18, 2024
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NYT Acrostic August 25, 2024

Racing Against Time One thing we all have in common is that we are older […]

NYT Acrostic August 11, 2024
Posted on August 8, 2024August 9, 2024
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NYT Acrostic August 11, 2024

There’s No Business Like Show Business

NYT Acrostic July 28, 2024
Posted on July 25, 2024July 20, 2024
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NYT Acrostic July 28, 2024

Falling Water

NYT Acrostic July 14, 2024
Posted on July 11, 2024July 8, 2024
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NYT Acrostic July 14, 2024

Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité!

NYT Acrostic June 30, 2024
Posted on June 27, 2024June 23, 2024
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NYT Acrostic June 30, 2024

“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”

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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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