Friday, October 9, 2026 — For Some, Spelling SYSIPHEAN is, Well, SISYIPHEAN — or, Third Time's the Charm — SISYPHEAN🙄
Now this was a Friday crossword — themeless, tricky, and highly entertaining. We have to applaud 39A, It's mine, all mine!, EGO; scratch our heads at 44D, "Gymnopédies" composer, SATIE; and will, shor...
10 Loka 6min
Thursday, October 8, 2026 — Oh, No, It's an ONO 🐠 😀
Rachel Grey and John Kugelman have collaborated on a very clever Thursday crossword, based on a dizzying theme that it took both cohosts no little time to suss out. Fortunately — and we have proof — o...
9 Loka 11min
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 — In the Great ROTI v. NAAN Contest, ROTI Scores Again!!
Listeners may recall that the appearance of ROTI or NAAN in the grid immediately drives us to xwordinfo.com to check out the number of times each has appeared in a crossword. As a consequence of today...
8 Loka 13min
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 — Adam Vincent's Got Our Number!
This was definitely a Tuesday crossword, and we say that not just because of the calendar. The clues were slightly trickier than yesterday's, but still eminently doable with a little cogitation (and a...
7 Loka 14min
Monday, October 5, 2026 — Ah, Those Tsky Tusky animals 🐗🙄
It's been a hot minute since Chase Dittrich's last NYTimes crossword, but he's here now with a fine Monday effort. The theme was engineered for Monday solvers, and while most of the answers were commo...
6 Loka 9min
Sunday, October 4, 2026 — 🎶 Mercy Sakes Alive, Looks Like We Got Ourselves a Convoy! 🚛🚚 😀
Kathryn Bale's absolutely fabulous debut crossword is in honor of a holiday that we had no idea existed until tackling Kathryn's puzzle. In our defense, the holiday first came into existence in 2020, ...
5 Loka 12min
Saturday, October 2, 2026 — KAC Is Back with a Chef's Kiss of a Saturday Crossword 😘
Kameron Austin Collins, aka KAC, specializes in tough Friday and Saturday crosswords. Today's is a perfect example, with cunning clueing everywhere you look in the grid. We can't say enough good thing...
4 Loka 13min
Friday, October, 2, 2026 — Finally, Epictetus Gets His 15 Minutes of Fame!
This was a perfectly crafted crossword to wrap up the work week — not too hard, not too easy, but juuuuust right. It included some awesome clues, for example: 57A, Figure with three faces, in Dante, S...
3 Loka 13min
