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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?”

NYT Acrostic June 16, 2024
Posted on June 13, 2024June 10, 2024
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NYT Acrostic June 16, 2024

What do the photos above have in common with the opening word of a popular holiday song?

NYT Acrostic June 2, 2024
Posted on May 22, 2024May 27, 2024
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NYT Acrostic June 2, 2024

Holy head-scratchers, Batman! It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s an acrostic!

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  1. RichardZ on NYT Acrostic August 23, 2026August 23, 2026

    My parents went to the Vermeer exhibit at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C (which ran for three months starting…

  2. Barbara in SF on NYT Acrostic August 23, 2026August 22, 2026

    Dutch art, and particularly Vermeer have been my favorites since loving art as a kid and then through my college…

  3. Etaoin Shrdlu (The Forgotten Borough) on NYT Acrostic August 23, 2026August 22, 2026

    During last night's sunset, the word "vermilion" came up in recalling the final line in Hopkins' poem. Life imitates art…

  4. Matthew Sagal on NYT Acrostic August 23, 2026August 22, 2026

    An interesting puzzle about a very interesting artist. I have enjoyed seeing Vermeer's art both in the Netherlands and in…

  5. Ernest MacWhichael on NYT Acrostic August 9, 2026August 17, 2026

    Ms. Stewart's "semicolon" clues are to be savored as the antidote to the impulse to skip the non-gimmes. I lingered…

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