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NYT Acrostic November 30, 2025
Posted on November 27, 2025November 25, 2025
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NYT Acrostic November 30, 2025

The City By the Bay This week’s acrostic honors San Francisco, the iconic American city […]

NYT Acrostic November 16, 2025
Posted on November 13, 2025November 11, 2025
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NYT Acrostic November 16, 2025

The Renaissance Man Walter Isaacson’s 2017 biography of Leonardo da Vinci brings to light the […]

NYT Acrostic November 2, 2025
Posted on October 30, 2025October 29, 2025
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NYT Acrostic November 2, 2025

Boo! Halloween seems to us an appropriate time of year for an acrostic about witches.  […]

NYT Acrostic October 19, 2025
Posted on October 16, 2025October 13, 2025
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NYT Acrostic October 19, 2025

All Wet To better appreciate the atmospheric style of This Is Happiness, the delightful 2019 […]

NYT Acrostic October 5, 2025
Posted on October 2, 2025October 1, 2025
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NYT Acrostic October 5, 2025

Riffing We chanced upon the unusual quote in this week’s puzzle while reading Ralph Ellison’s […]

NYT Acrostic September 21, 2025
Posted on September 18, 2025September 10, 2025
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NYT Acrostic September 21, 2025

Portmanteaus A little over 20 years ago, Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon published a brilliant […]

NYT Acrostic September 7, 2025
Posted on September 4, 2025September 5, 2025
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NYT Acrostic September 7, 2025

Best Friend The photograph above is of our daughter’s amazing dog, Tractor, the most loving, […]

NYT Acrostic August 24, 2025
Posted on August 21, 2025August 14, 2025
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NYT Acrostic August 24, 2025

Shhh… Several years ago, while a huge building was under very noisy construction right across […]

NYT Acrostic August 10, 2025
Posted on August 7, 2025August 8, 2025
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NYT Acrostic August 10, 2025

Live from New York … This week’s puzzle pays tribute to Saturday Night Live, perhaps […]

NYT Acrostic July 27, 2025
Posted on July 24, 2025July 6, 2025
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NYT Acrostic July 27, 2025

Monkey Business This week marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most famous court […]

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  1. Heather H. on NYT Acrostic April 19, 2026April 21, 2026

    It was not one of your most challenging puzzles to solve for my wordy little brain -- but still plenty…

  2. Greg Schwed on NYT Acrostic April 19, 2026April 21, 2026

    So cool that the author actually weighs in! (Not the first time. But probably unlikely next time they put up…

  3. Jonathan Becher on NYT Acrostic April 19, 2026April 20, 2026

    Thanks for the shoutout! It made me content that you referred to my content. How about ones based on homophones…

  4. Marshall Walthew on NYT Acrostic April 19, 2026April 19, 2026

    I found this one hard to start, but once I saw that the first word of the quote was HETERONYMS,…

  5. Lawrence Rossini on NYT Acrostic April 19, 2026April 19, 2026

    To me it was worth the hard work you put in to construct -- if not the easiest it was…

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