Evan Birnholz is the Sunday crossword writer for The Washington Post Magazine. He lives in Philadelphia and keeps an archive of his pre-Post puzzles on his website, Devil Cross.

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword answers are here for Thursday, May 8, and they’ve got solvers talking. From the tricky 1-Across clue that stumped many to the timely mention of the colossal squid, this ...

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Relative of a bee: four letters.

MARBLE MADNESS: Each theme answer contains an anagram of the word MARBLE: HERBAL REMEDY, TIGER BALM, and PROBLEM AREAS. MARBLE MADNESS is an arcade video game first released in 1984. The game was ...

BINGO (5A: "You hit the nail on the head!") VOTE (17A: Exercise a civic duty) HASTE (53A: Proverbial tastemaker) STARR (10D: Apt surname for an astronomer) NO NONSENSE (Freestyle): There's no ...

The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a three-word body of water. Email your answer in the subject line to crosswordcontest@wsj.com.

Ingredient in soondubu jjigae: four letters.