I mentioned in December that my approach to Sunday-size themeless puzzles now is to begin with a word or phrase whose clue I’ve been saving for a while to use, rather than just any phrase that hasn’t ...

Did you expect a puzzle about baseball when you saw it was called “Play Ball”? Sorry to disappoint you, baseball fans, but “play” refers to a stage production here. That’s a little bit of … wordplay, ...

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