Yeah, I started with epic tales and it was trivial with just the one word in there.
I set this up in Excel so that once I figured out a letter/number combo it would populate the rest of the grid where that number showed up. Helped to solve a lot of the words without using the clues.
Response
I started with SASSY⌠my daughters are expert-level 
I feel you.
1/22/21
Eight knights - numbered 1 through 8 - are seated facing the Round Table in such a way that no knight sits next to any knight whose number is less than three away - plus or minus from his own. With knights 2, 4, and 8 seated as shown, seat the rest of the knights.
1/22/21
Summary
Started with the two remaining numbers for the 4 and moved on from there.
8-1-4-7-3-6-2-5-8
+1 and started with the epic tales
How does the 1 work in your solution? Am I missing something?
Itâs a strictly less than calculation, not less than or equal, I think. So plus or minus 2 numbers donât work, but plus or minus 3 or more do work.
Celalta is correct, and so is NNâs solution.
We hit another weekend page.
1/23/21 - Alien Encounter
On a distant planet, all inhabitants are either pink or green. Pink aliens have three heads, and green aliens have seven heads. At a town all meeting, there were 48 inhabitants with a total of 220 heads. How many of them were green aliens?
1/24/21 - Itâs Your Call
A San Francisco establishment wants the phone number 229-2732 because of the seven-letter phrase that the number spells. Whatâs the phrase?
First one is easy - you have two equations and two variables.
Havenât figured out the second one yet.
1/24/21
Summary
Bay area
Nice. I got the first word, couldnât figure out the second.
Originally I thought it was going to take forever to get caught up. Now Iâm finding that once I tear off a page, I canât help but read the next one and if itâs interesting then I start to think about it. And if I start to think about it, then I post it here. So in the space of 6 days weâve almost gotten through the entire month of January.
Summary
The 2 at the end seemed to limit the choices a lot. B or C seemed very much more unlikely than A, so that set me in the right direction.
1/25/21 - Catching a Code
Weâve taken five common six-letter words, listed in alphabetical order, and disguised them using a random substitution cipher. Can you determine the words?
Z K B Z B W R J Q V J P Q J O X P R V K X O B V W Z R J V J
I made this harder than the actual puzzle. The actual puzzle gives you what X and P stand for. I was curious if anyone could solve it without those hints. I canât solve it with those hints 
1/25 Hints
X stand for G
P stands for T
1/25 Answer (I had to use the hints)
Summary
Having GT next to each other, I thought the last letter had to be H. That was the hard part. Then the J is a vowel since it is the second letter after H in the second word, so my thought was a word like strength so I plugged E in and then thought of Length. Helmet, then Magnum, then scheme, followed pretty easily.
| C | A | U | C | U | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H | E | L | M | E | T |
| L | E | N | G | T | H |
| M | A | G | N | U | M |
| S | C | H | E | M | E |
Summary
yes that was the key
I thought the first word to be insist, until had the clue to work from