Thematic Foursome 11/8/2025
Hi! I still have a blog! I haven't been here much; if you missed my last couple posts, I've been putting most of my crosswording effort into The Gnomon these days. Maybe I should outline what I've done since the last time I posted? I've composed nine and edited seven puzzles for The Gnomon , which has been an absolute dream and keeps on growing, with five more puzzles (only two by me) coming December 1. I've appeared in The Browser in #212 (with Roland Ingram ), #225, #236, and should have one more (another collab) before the Browser wraps up its weekly cryptic at the end of the year. I composed in the tenth puzzle on Cryptic Crossweird , the cryptics patreon run by Dob, Momes and Bob from the twitch stream Crossweird. And in August, Jess Shulman and I were back in the Wall Street Journal with a puzzle titled Boxes . But Somehow none of those were the impetus for this post! Over the last few days I've been constructing a puzzle live on twitch.tv, with a...