Sunday, September 28, 2025 - PEETS, when you need caffeine to get to the next Starbuck's 😀

While today's crossword did not have a Thanksgiving Day theme, it did have a theme for which we are thankful: one that was relatively straightforward but still quite amusing. This is unsurprising, as ...

13 Loka 5min

Today's crossword was a splendid work from an always entertaining constructor, aka Michael Lieberman. The themed clues in particular appear engineered to put a smile on your face — if they don't, con...

12 Loka 15min

This was a very entertaining and relatively straightforward Saturday crossword by David Levinson Wilk, arguably easier than Friday's — but, as always, YMMV depending on what's in your wheelhouse. Jean...

11 Loka 6min

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

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

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...

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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

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...

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