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Friday, September 2, 2011 Pancho Harrison 2 Sep 2011 | 07:30 pm
Theme: These PUNS really raised my IRE. Each phrase is a sound alike of a common phrase with a word rhyming with the "IRE" replaced with a homonym. Really very clever, with the first three in the firs...
Thursday September 1, 2011 Steve Salitan 1 Sep 2011 | 10:30 pm
Theme: ROUNDS (64A. Clue for this puzzle's four longest answers) - Theme entries are four definitions of ROUNDS. 17A. See 64-Across : AMMUNITION UNITS 24A. See 64-Across : SPARRING PERIODS 42A. See...
Wednesday, August 31 2011, Gareth Bain 31 Aug 2011 | 10:30 pm
Theme: BE MINE aw. this would be a good valentine's day puzzle. each theme answer ends with a synonym for either kiss (x) or hug (o). 18A. Method of looking for keys? : HUNT AND PECK 28A. Finishing...
Wednesday, August 31 2011, Gareth Bain 31 Aug 2011 | 06:30 pm
Theme: BE MINE aw. this would be a good valentine's day puzzle. each theme answer ends with a synonym for either kiss (x) or hug (o). 18A. Method of looking for keys? : HUNT AND PECK 28A. Finishing...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Nancy Salomon 30 Aug 2011 | 10:30 pm
Theme: Get Thee Gone - The unifier would have us start each part of the themes with it's own start. 17A. *Sydney's locale, familiarly : DOWN UNDER. Go Down(Be nice.), Go Under. 21A. *Man, according ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Nancy Salomon 30 Aug 2011 | 06:30 pm
Theme: Get Thee Gone - The unifier would have us start each part of the themes with it's own start. 17A. *Sydney's locale, familiarly : DOWN UNDER. Go Down(Be nice.), Go Under. 21A. *Man, according ...
Monday, August 29, 2011 Jennifer Nutt 29 Aug 2011 | 10:30 pm
Theme: Res - It's a legal matter. The unifier explains it quite well. 16A. *Not animated, in filmmaking : LIVE ACTION. Legal action, a judicial proceeding; one party prosecutes another for a wrong do...
Sunday August 28, 2011 Robert A Doll 28 Aug 2011 | 09:00 pm
Theme: Fish Heads - The first word in each familiar phrase can precede (head) "fish". 23A. Constant threat, metaphorically : SWORD OF DAMOCLES. Swordfish. 33A. Confederate Memorial Carving site : ST...
Saturday, Aug 27, 2011 Kyle T. Dolan 27 Aug 2011 | 09:41 pm
Theme: None Words: 70 Blocks: 34 Well I just love a Saturday that moves along this smoothly - I hope you all felt the same way ~! Constructor Kyle had one other offering back in Dec. '09; this time...
Friday, August 26, 2011 James Sajdak 26 Aug 2011 | 10:30 pm
Theme: Cutting some Zs. Each of the theme answers is a phrase containing the letter "Z" which is removed and is replaced by the pluralized D sound to make a similar sounding but very different phrase,...
