Where the circled words cross, they're ALL TIED UP. Change directions at the middle knots to get THREAD, STRING, CORD, ROPE, CABLE, and YARN.
– puzzle by Jeffrey Martinovic
Mon 1/13/2025
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MIDDLE ENGLISH was spoken and written between the Old and Early Modern English periods — roughly 1100 to 1500. Shakespeare's plays and the King James Bible were about a century after that.
– puzzle by Adam Levav
Tue 1/14/2025
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QUIDDITCH, not yet an Olympic sport, is from the Harry Potter books.
– puzzle by Lance Enfinger
Wed 1/15/2025
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For answers to the clues with slashes, you remove the final letter for the first part and the first letter for the second part.
So for 34-Across, enter CLOSESHOPE:
"Lock up for the night" is a CLOSE SHOP_
"Despairs" is a _LOSES HOPE
and the letters LOSESHOP are the COMMON CORE.
For 21-Across, A to M is the first half of our alphabet.
– puzzle by Rebecca Goldstein and Adam Wagner
Fri 1/17/2025
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This is Willa Angel Chen Miller's solo crossword debut.
