A Seinfeld-related clue in a cryptic crossword about Sondheim is quite the intersection of my interests. Just need to throw in basketball and soccer.

The Cryptic Crossword: Sondheim Edition Pass it on: tango’s missing in Sondheim show (7).

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I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

How to increase open play chances. If you feel like you’ve written about it recently and I missed it, please send link!

Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective Fluid intelligence, which peaks near age 20 and declines materially across adulthood, is often regarded as the most critical cognitive ability for pre…

When including cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional intelligence, financial literacy, moral reasoning, sunk cost bias, cognitive flexibility, cognitive empathy, & need for cognition, peak in overall functioning is at age 55 to 60, not earlier
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Minute Cryptic - 28 September, 2025
"Ballpark teams’ tie-breaker" (8)
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🤝 2 hints – matched the community par (80,613 solvers so far).
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Watching the replay of the KU football game, and so far the bumper music going into ads has been The War on Drugs, Daft Punk, and Phoenix? It’s like Fox Sports customized it for me.

Doing an old NYT crossword reprinted in the Sunday press with @perchperchson.bsky.social
and that’s how I learned that “Marisa Tomei” is an anagram for “It’s a me, Mario.” This feels impossible, correct, and like an Italian American hate crime all at once.

Congrats! You are one of the best sportswriters in the country and for a while I was subscribing to the KC Star just to get your KU coverage. Selfishly, I'm glad I can now just read you as part of The Athletic.

Photo of a bulk bin at a supermarket, the label on which reads "Once Again Tamari Almonds"

/host introducing the musical guest for their second song on SNL voice

noel and blobby x

noel and blobby x

noel and blobby x

noel and blobby x

Every single photograph of Noel Edmonds with Mr Blobby makes them look like the absolute goals of married couples. The friends of your parents you grew up with who you looked at and, even at 7, knew were what you should aspire to be when you eventually found a partner.

I’m betting on the Pacers to win Game 7 tonight because if a Republican-led US government is starting wars over spurious claims that Muslim countries are developing WMD programs, Haliburton is probably about to get a big win

I remember in 5th grade our gym teacher sitting us down and letting us know that in the last like 30 years only two people from our town of about 100,00 had ever become pro athletes. That was pretty effective for me.

Stand-Up and Win - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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That was a great thing about living in D.C.

These are nice because it will tell you what type of crytic clue it is: squarepursuit.com

I don't normally do new years resolutions, but I guess this year mine is getting into cryptic crosswords?

Connections
Puzzle #557
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Skill 98/99
Uniqueness 1 in 622

Almost perfect score

Ronnie Spector in "Beatles '64": "I'll tell you the truth. They had to escape."

Ronnie Spector in "Beatles '64": "I said, I'm taking you to Harlem. Nobody will notice you up there."

Ronnie Spector in "Beatles '64": "And they didn't. They thought they were a bunch of Spanish dorks."

Ronnie Spector has what is easily the funniest quote in that new Beatles '64 documentary.

Wow! After years of failing to come up with panels as good as them, they just buy them. Makes sense.

This worked well for me for finding my Twitter follows on here.

Apropos of the news, your reminder that RFK Jr. met Cheryl Hines through Larry David. I really wish we were getting a new season of Curb so he could comment on this . . .

Magazine that says “Bears: Their Strength. Their Wisdom. The Way They Live” with a pic of a panda

Bears: Their Strength. Their Wisdom. The Way They Live.

A lot of them enthusiastically

"Elmo sings Deacon Blues"

Every public figure weighing in on anti-Semitism in America should have to disclose the following
-How many bar/bat mitzvahs they've been to
-Favorite Curb Your Enthusiasm episode
-What they'd order at a deli