Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - Wowzers, this crossword was aaaaaaawesome!!
Wayne Bergman has crafted a brilliant Wednesday crossword, with several genuinely LOL clues. We discuss several in today's episode, but we'd also like to give a shoutout to 14A, April Fools' Day sign,...
5 Maalis 12min
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - By gum, this crossword really SLAPS! 😀
This was a terrific Tuesday crossword by Drew Schmenner, his seventh for the NYTimes since 2021. As expected, it ticked all the right boxes: a kind, gentle yet clever theme ✅a slew of intriguing yet a...
4 Maalis 16min
Monday, March 2, 2026 - Mmm, pass me another slice of that ol' tres LECHES cake 😋
This was a very pleasing debut crossword by Leslie Benson, who provides, on xwordinfo.com, an amusing description of this puzzle's construction — some of which apparently took place while she was in a...
3 Maalis 14min
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - In like a 🦁, out like a 🐑
Some of the NYTimes' finest crosswords were created by university students. For example, consider, oh, say, today's, by Western University students Matt Proulx and Jeffrey Martinovic. The theme is sli...
2 Maalis 16min
Saturday, February 28, 2026 - A FEDORA in the grid? Now *that's* class! 😀
This marks Adam Levav's fourth NYTimes crossword in just over a year, and you can see from today's awesome puzzle why he keeps getting published. This themeless beast had scads of challenging clues, a...
1 Maalis 10min
Friday, February 27, 2026 - Happy AEOF (Almost-End-of-February) Day!
Today's crossword was a debut by Caroline Hand. Getting any crossword published in the NYTimes is an incredible achievement — and to debut on a Friday doubly so. And now for the numbers: there were 6,...
28 Helmi 16min
Thursday, February 26, 2026 - BYGUM this was a brilliant crossword!
Yitzi Snow has created a masterpiece of a crossword: perhaps it's not hanging at the Louvre yet, but we know it'll get there someday. Why, you ask? For three main reasons: ThemeThemeThemeOh, and one m...
27 Helmi 16min
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 - EMO hair, it's gonna be big!! 🙄
This was Brad Lively's second New York Times crossword, and it was stunning, especially, as one might imagine, the ingenious theme. None of the clues were too over the top — with the possible exceptio...
26 Helmi 18min
