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• Ryan solves the NYT, Tue 11-17-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Last night I saw Gentlemen Broncos , the new movie from Jared Hess, the director of Napoleon Dynamite .  Wow, that was weird.  Some parts were good weird but a lot of it was weird for the sake of being weird.  Mr. Hess may be going down the M. Night Shyamalan road where each successive movie is just a little bit ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Mon 11-16-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  So yesterday’s (Sunday’s) puzzle was all about a certain verse engineer and in my post I neglected to mention our favorite verse engineer, Amanda Yesnowitz, the Unparalleled Parallel Verse Engineer, A Shining Light to us All.  I feel terrible especially since Amanda went to the trouble of (sort of) telling me ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Sun 11-15-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  If you check out the comments on yesterday’s post you’ll get a very detailed explanation from Joe Krozel, Rhymes with Puzzle as to how he constructed that Saturday puzzle.  It’s pretty amazing and even though he’s explained it quite thoroughly it still seems like it might be some sort of magic. Today’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, 11-14-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  All you podcast listeners (that’s all of you, right?) should check out yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education puzzle .  It was constructed by James Sajdak and features the clue Wielder of Mjöllnir .  Yes!  Thanks to Dan Feyer, Winner of the C Division, Winner of the B Division, Winner of Lollapuzzoola 2 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Fri 11-13-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Today would be great day for everybody to watch (or rewatch) the original Friday the 13th .  It’s the only one of the series I’ve seen but it’s actually not bad.  You’ve got bad acting, really short man shorts, Kevin Bacon, an impromptu game of Monopoly, a ridiculous villain and an honest-to-goodness scary ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ryan was solving the NYT, Thu 11-12-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Going to be a short post today.  I had work coming out my Yazoo River last night.  Once I got home, it took me almost 40 minutes to come very close to solving today’s puzzle and another 5 or 6 minutes to search the web for what I had wrong.  In my defense, I’ve been up for a very long time. Speaking of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Wed 11-11-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Amy Reynaldo!!!  We want to know.  How on Earth did you solve Bob Klahn’s Saturday puzzle in 7 minutes?  Seriously.  Let us know.  Odalisque is just a word that you can come up with?  Reveal your secrets.  Reveal your “syst”.  Either email us, comment on the blog or be a guest on our podcast.  You ...
  4 weeks ago

• Will Shortz Presents Sudoku for a Brain Workout: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles

  
  Passion for Puzzles — Authority: 131
  Theres always time for a little mental exercise and what better way to flex your mental muscles than with Sudoku? So grab a pencil and strengthen your mind today! Features: - 100 all-new easy to hard puzzles - Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz - Big grids with lots of space for easy ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Tue 11 > 10 > 9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Hey, it’s countdown day!  11…10…9…well, that’s the end of the countdown but that’s pretty cool anyway.  I guess we’ll get another one next year on December 11th but that’ll be it for this century.  Speaking of countdowns I’ve been watching some documentaries on the history of NASA space ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, 11-9-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Last week was a tough week here at the Be More Smarter offices.  We got hacked and thought our entire site might be gone.  I had to suffer through the end of a World Series that involved two teams that were not the Dodgers.  (Although I’m glad that Brian’s mom, XOM, is happy.)  And, finally, Saturday’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Sun 11-8-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Yay!  The New York Times crossword is solvable again.  Yesterday’s was one of the hardest puzzles I’ve ever seen in the paper and I didn’t come close to no-googling it.  I learned from facebook that Dan Feyer, Winner of the C Division, Winner of the B Division almost didn’t finish it.  That’s like saying ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ryan is still in the process of solving the NYT, Sat 11-7-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Hey, we’ve gone a whole day without some random internet person shutting down our website and deleting all our posts.  I’d call that a victory.  We still haven’t figured out who did it or why on Earth they would do it but, unsurprisingly, we still haven’t seen number one suspect Philadelphia Phillie ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, 11-6-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  For those who didn’t hear, we got hacked yesterday.  The site was down yesterday for a few hours and it looked for a little while like all of our posts were gone for good.  Luckily, everything had been backed up on October 22nd and we were able to restore our site to that point.  We have the posts after that date ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Sun 11-1-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  More technical difficulties.  Bleh.  This time it’s with the feed for our blog.  Is anybody experiencing a problem with that?  For instance, do you read us through google reader or other RSS reader?  Is it not updating?  Let us know if you’re experiencing any problems. Today’s puzzle was constructed by ...
  5 weeks ago

• Brian can’t solve the NYT puzzle: Sat., 10-31-09

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Anyone who knows me on Facebook might have seen my latest status – no, it’s not about shoelaces, like Ryan’s. Mine is about being in a crappy mood. And guess what – this puzzle did nothing to alleviate that mood. So here goes. Foreign: ET ALIA (22A. Plus other things) APRES (35A. French following) ERES ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Fri 10-30-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  Those  of you who follow my facebook status updates know that my shoelaces are driving me nuts.  For some reason they are getting longer and longer.  I’ve double and triple-knotted them but they continue to flop on the ground, picking up dirt and getting caught in various contraptions.  Lately, they been ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Thu 10-29-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  In the comments for the last podcast there was some discussion as to the existence of a food product called bread & butter pickles.  I can verify that there is indeed such a thing.  I can also verify that they are one of my favorite types of pickles.  A comment on the site wisegeek gives a possible reason for ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Wed 10-28-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  The question of the day is: If the punch line to “How do you find Will Smith in the snow?” is “You look for the fresh prints” then what is the punch line to “How do you find Will Shortz in the snow?”  One answer from tabstop is “Go across and then down”. Today’s puzzle was constructed by Mike ...
  6 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, 10-27-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  It’s going to be a bit of a short post today.  Brian is still in Wisconsin competing in the Iditarod and I’m running everything here at the Be More Smarter offices.  I had to do a lot of work on the podcast tonight which hasn’t left a lot of time for blogging. Today’s puzzle is by Chuck Deodene and features ...
  6 weeks ago

• Ryan solves the NYT, Mon 10-25-9

  
  Ryan and Brian do Crosswords — Authority: 119
  So I think my wife and I (Kathryn and Ryan, not Toni and Brian) are about to get iPhones.  What do people think?  Do you guys like them?  Are they worth the early termination fee from Sprint?  Are they worth paying more money every month for less minutes?  Are they useful for anything besides solving crosswords ...
  6 weeks ago

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