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NYT Acrostic December 14, 2025
Posted on December 11, 2025December 17, 2025
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NYT Acrostic December 14, 2025

Let’s Dance We found Mindy Aloff’s book Why Dance Matters on the shelf of a […]

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 […]

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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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