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NYT Acrostic October 4, 2026
Posted on October 1, 2026September 29, 2026
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NYT Acrostic October 4, 2026

How’s That Spelled? For our fellow word nerds – and we know there are many […]

NYT Acrostic September 20, 2026
Posted on September 17, 2026September 18, 2026
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NYT Acrostic September 20, 2026

Genetic Modification Some of you may know the voice of our friend Dan Charles from […]

NYT Acrostic September 6, 2026
Posted on September 3, 2026August 31, 2026
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NYT Acrostic September 6, 2026

Thwack! We are hardly tennis aficionados, but we play the game occasionally and have several […]

NYT Acrostic August 23, 2026
Posted on August 20, 2026August 20, 2026
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NYT Acrostic August 23, 2026

Going Dutch We had the good fortune of finding ourselves in Amsterdam in April 2023, […]

NYT Acrostic August 9, 2026
Posted on August 6, 2026July 31, 2026
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NYT Acrostic August 9, 2026

Eyes and Ears We have thoroughly enjoyed many of the works of the late David […]

NYT Acrostic July 26, 2026
Posted on July 23, 2026July 16, 2026
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NYT Acrostic July 26, 2026

Opposites Attract Before his death in 2018, Stephen Hawking occupied the same endowed chair in […]

NYT Acrostic July 12, 2026
Posted on July 9, 2026July 4, 2026
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NYT Acrostic July 12, 2026

Down a Rabbit Hole Constructing this week’s acrostic reminded us of the many hares and […]

NYT Acrostic June 28, 2026
Posted on June 25, 2026June 22, 2026
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NYT Acrostic June 28, 2026

Our Semiquincentennial As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of […]

NYT Acrostic June 14, 2026
Posted on June 11, 2026June 3, 2026
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NYT Acrostic June 14, 2026

Olé, Olé, Olé With the World Cup soccer tournament getting underway in North America, we […]

NYT Acrostic May 31, 2026
Posted on May 28, 2026May 25, 2026
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NYT Acrostic May 31, 2026

Time Flies The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, was not the first literary work involving […]

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  1. David Irwin on NYT Acrostic October 4, 2026October 3, 2026

    Shoot. There’s an unwanted “correction” in the above. An American prejudice in my word processing!

  2. David Irwin on NYT Acrostic October 4, 2026October 3, 2026

    I can’t imagine how I would have done this one on paper! I started out badly by misremembering the order…

  3. Greg Schwed on NYT Acrostic October 4, 2026October 3, 2026

    David McCullough was certainly one our greatest (and most joyously readable) historians. My dad, Peter Schwed, a longtime editor at…

  4. Richard Yates on NYT Acrostic October 4, 2026October 3, 2026

    Much harder to unravel this one in my estimation. Had to resort to looking up A. and E. Got S.…

  5. Matthew Sagal on NYT Acrostic October 4, 2026October 2, 2026

    As a Chicago resident, with the White Sox going forward in the postseason after the Cubs' meltdown, the Rate Field…

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