Here’s Johnny

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JohnDickersonApr 14, 2025, 3:48 PM2025-04-14negative62%

Crossing VIGODA with IMPEI and ALDA is a party foul.

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JohnDickersonOct 2, 2024, 5:12 PM2024-10-02positive94%

The top half seemed almost Friday level, at least to me. Nice theme nonetheless.

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Here’s JohnnyScSep 30, 2025, 2:53 PM2025-09-30positive42%

Fun puzzle until the SW corner had too many proper nouns that I didn’t know.

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Here’s JohnnyScOct 11, 2025, 9:36 AM2025-10-11positive94%

Made it about 90% through before I cheated and moved on with my day. Happy Friday!

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JohnDickersonJun 13, 2024, 10:04 AM2024-06-13positive94%

@Jenny I love diving into the archives. When I’m on a plane I’ll sometimes sit there and do Thursday puzzles the whole flight!

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Here’s JohnnyScDec 14, 2025, 9:33 PM2025-12-14positive98%

Wow, looking forward to the next 50+ years of crosswords from this constructor!

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JohnDickersonJan 12, 2024, 7:16 AM2024-01-11neutral72%

I’m used to rebuses, and the themes, being related to the answers, but not the clues themselves! I’ll remember this!

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JohnDickersonAug 24, 2024, 2:04 PM2024-08-24positive95%

Nothing better than a Saturday puzzle full of obscure trivia that nobody knows!

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Here’s JohnnyScJul 15, 2026, 6:18 PM2026-07-15negative48%

In the past I would go to look at the Wordplay column and it would open in the NY Times app. Now it opens in the Games app. I miss the old way, it was easier to flip back and forth when it came time to cheat a little. I mean c’mon, I’m already frustrated enough when I can’t solve without help!

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Here’s JohnnyScAug 27, 2026, 1:59 PM2026-08-27neutral75%

@Barry Ancona I have. Still haven’t heard the term “at bar.”

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Here’s JohnnyScSep 25, 2025, 12:34 PM2025-09-25positive76%

I always search for the theme clue first on Thursdays, and it paid off today.

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JohnDickersonApr 10, 2024, 2:55 PM2024-04-10negative94%

@Jon Wednesdays are the worst about this. I feel like they up the difficulty solely by coming up with more obscure references/trivia.

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JohnDickersonAug 1, 2024, 8:21 AM2024-08-01neutral55%

Ahh finally caught on to a Thursday puzzle where the gimmick was in the clue, not the answer!

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JohnDickersonAug 16, 2024, 9:15 AM2024-08-16neutral49%

DETER inside of DEFER was a little dirty. Besides that, fun puzzle.

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JohnDickersonSep 2, 2024, 2:40 PM2024-09-02positive92%

I recently read the fantastic ‘Count of Monte Cristo.’ If I had stayed on the Dumas train and started ‘The Three Musketeers,’ then I would’ve shaved 20 seconds off today’s time by not having to guess one letter!

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JohnDickersonNov 20, 2024, 4:24 PM2024-11-20positive93%

2 Down was my favorite. Knowing the rebus, I thought it just had to be MANTA RAY, but it wasn’t quite working. Nice aha moment with MORAY EEL

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JohnDickersonJan 23, 2025, 3:50 PM2025-01-23positive88%

Nice Thursday. Although if you aren’t overly familiar with Beethoven or Popeye you’ll be left guessing.

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JohnDickersonFeb 26, 2025, 8:03 PM2025-02-26positive68%

Started erasing what I knew to be correct entries to fill in LONGJOHN…then the triumphant AHA! moment struck!

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Here’s JohnnyScJul 19, 2026, 4:33 PM2026-07-19positive72%

@Steve me too!

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Here’s JohnnyScSep 25, 2025, 12:39 PM2025-09-25positive98%

@CB Yes CB, Thursdays are my favorite! Like a little weekly present that you get to open.

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JohnDickersonMay 28, 2024, 9:06 AM2024-05-28positive51%

Hey, it’s a trivial trivia Tuesday!

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Here’s JohnnyScJun 24, 2025, 10:36 PM2025-06-24negative59%

Couldn’t believe I didn’t get the theme. But then I read Wordplay and wasn’t too disappointed in myself

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Here’s JohnnyScOct 30, 2025, 7:26 PM2025-10-30neutral47%

I haven’t seen Wicked or heard the song, but I got the theme. So I wasn’t as IRKED as I could have been.

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JohnDickersonMar 12, 2024, 4:50 PM2024-03-12negative68%

Was I the only one stumped by ANDHOW and OYVEY? Sheesh!

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JohnDickersonMar 14, 2024, 9:24 AM2024-03-14negative45%

Didn’t take no EINSTEIN to figure out this theme. Sorry, had to say it.

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JohnDickersonApr 6, 2024, 3:04 AM2024-04-04positive75%

Classic. The kind of puzzle you show to your non-crossword friends. “See, you should start doing crosswords!”

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Here’s JohnnyScDec 16, 2025, 11:42 PM2025-12-16positive89%

Shout out to AKIRA. No movie triggered my 10 year old imagination quite like that one.

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Here’s JohnnyScMar 13, 2026, 2:19 PM2026-03-13positive98%

Perfect Friday puzzle to me!

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Here’s JohnnyScApr 10, 2026, 1:55 AM2026-04-09positive98%

Thursday and Sunday are my favorite days. Wednesday and Friday second favorite. Followed by Saturday, Tuesday, Monday.

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Here’s JohnnyScMay 7, 2026, 3:11 PM2026-05-07positive71%

Enjoyed the theme. But the rest of the puzzle was a little meh.

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JohnDickersonJul 31, 2024, 1:24 PM2024-07-31positive76%

Only a few clues of easy trivia. My kind of puzzle.

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JohnDickersonAug 6, 2024, 11:00 AM2024-08-06negative59%

I think the crowd has spoken: This puzzle was a bit of a headache. I would’ve solved it faster if ASYOUPREFER or ASYOUSEEFIT didn’t come to mind first. But combined with DASHIT, NUYORICAN and ALUMNAE, it was a doozy!

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JohnDickersonAug 22, 2024, 4:42 PM2024-08-22negative77%

Once again, this puzzle exposed my lack of knowledge on anything opera

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JohnDickersonMar 26, 2025, 11:49 PM2025-03-26positive83%

Enjoyed picking up on the theme about 75% of the way through and using it to solve the puzzle. The worst is when I quickly understand the theme but still can’t finish the entire puzzle, looking at you Sunday.

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Here’s JohnnyScSep 3, 2025, 6:45 PM2025-09-03neutral54%

Nope

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Here’s JohnnyScSep 26, 2025, 10:38 PM2025-09-26negative91%

Some diabolical clues today. I really wanted to put DELETEDTWEETS for 33A.

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JohnDickersonMar 23, 2025, 6:39 AM2025-03-22negative80%

Disappointed in myself for not getting SAMOVAR and RAISA despite having read a book on Russia’s history and “War and Peace.” 😭

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Here’s JohnnyScJun 5, 2025, 5:46 PM2025-06-05positive94%

I knew this puzzle would be a hit amongst the rebus haters. Nice Thursday!

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Here’s JohnnyScJun 12, 2025, 8:56 PM2025-06-12positive98%

Sports and rebuses, two of my favorite things!

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Here’s JohnnyScDec 27, 2025, 4:14 PM2025-12-27negative49%

@Phil Let’s be real, when you go to the lake, do you call it a beach trip? Sure it’s a misdirection but not an especially clever one.

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Here’s JohnnyScFeb 9, 2026, 2:00 AM2026-02-08neutral43%

Dang, could’ve had a personal record if I had locked in Monday-style and punched in answers using both hands.

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Here’s JohnnyScAug 10, 2026, 1:46 PM2026-08-10negative67%

Thought this puzzle was going to be a good candidate for a Monday PB. Alas, I guess I wasn’t on my A-game, and missed it by a minute. The need for speed has made the Monday puzzle the most stressful one of the week for me!

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Here’s JohnnyScOct 24, 2026, 11:25 AM2026-10-24positive54%

Well, I guess today was easy even by modern standards. As a mere three-year veteran of NYT crosswords, I was hoping I found today’s solve easy because I’ve been working through the year 2016 in the archive. Let me tell you, back then the solves were way harder! But in my opinion, maddeningly so. I’m sure that’s the preference of some hardened, masochistic vets who are probably just smarter than me. But I prefer something in between, which is a tough balance to strike. Today was indeed an easy Saturday. (They didn’t have those in 2016).

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JohnDickersonMay 12, 2024, 5:36 AM2024-05-12neutral76%

@Gilead Kutnick Came here to basically say the same.

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JohnDickersonMar 10, 2025, 3:29 AM2025-03-09positive51%

Top half was kinda fun. Bottom half was downright sinister

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JohnDickersonMar 26, 2025, 11:41 PM2025-03-26neutral59%

@Nancy Sculerati MD LMAO. Sounds like you’re HAVING - THOUGHTS.

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JohnDickersonApr 17, 2025, 4:32 PM2025-04-17negative74%

I got the theme, but also got annoyed at having to click around on mobile searching for the starred clues. Also it’s forest through the trees (plural), but the grid had only one tree. Would’ve been cooler if it featured multiple smaller trees. But I’m no constructor and I know creating puzzles must be hard enough as it is!

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JohnDickersonMay 2, 2025, 5:38 AM2025-05-01positive69%

Nice Thursday gimmick. I was initially trying DOUBLE BACK, but it seemed too familiar, like it’s been used in a puzzle fairly recently. One minor gripe: I feel like the clue for 20 across (places to carry takeout orders) was a bit of a stretch. My brain wanted it to have something to do with Mafia or CIA activities, if you know what I mean.

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Here’s JohnnyScJun 27, 2025, 1:43 AM2025-06-26positive96%

I try to get the theme ASAP when solving Thursdays. It really paid off with this one. It was very satisfying filling in the theme clues once I figured it out.

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Here’s JohnnyScDec 27, 2025, 4:12 PM2025-12-27negative61%

@Kathryn People can do their mental gymnastics to justify this clue, but I agree it was a bit of a…stretch.

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