What even IS a Thursday crossword these days? Is a Thursday crossword, like time itself, "only a stubbornly persistent illusion"? A memory? A fable? 😱 Whatever it is, we're talking about the last "week" of xword puzzles in the New York Times (12/6/21 - 12/12/21).  <a href= "https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/918418825/is-it-time-to-say-r-i-p-to-p-o-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR on "POC"</a> <a href= "https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2001/the-trouble-with-tribe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Trouble with Tribe</a> ... and <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pyCGnZzYA&ab_channel=TribeCalledQuestVEVO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the glory of Quest</a>. Enjoying "Crossnerds"? Give us five ⭐️s and comment <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossnerds/id1195458605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in Apple Podcasts</a>! <a href= "https://crossnerds.com/content/twitter.com/crossnerds">@ us on Twitter</a>! Support us <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/crossnerds">on Patreon</a>! Or just keep listening. Or all. Ideally all. But we'll take any. Please and thank you!

There's a new game in town | TNY's Liz Maynes-Aminzade

Crossnerds is the world's best—er, nerdiest—crossword puzzle podcast. Editors, constructors, solvers, and allies deliver piping-hot takes on the New York Times crossword puzzle and the vast cruciuniverse of wordplay beyond.