Friday, September 18, 2026 — A Splendiferous Way to Wrap Up the Workweek
Ryan Mathiason's third NYTimes crossword, and his first Friday, was an elegant piece of cruciverbial magic. We like clues that educate —13A, Modern tech aid whose design was inspired by a Go board, QR...
19 Sep 15min
Thursday, September 17, 2026 — 🎉 Woo-hoo, 250,000 Downloads and Counting!! 🎉
According to BuzzSprout, our podcast has had over 250,000 downloads, and so, to celebrate, we're ... going to do another podcast 😀 Your cohosts had slightly different impressions of today's crosswor...
18 Sep 14min
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 — Bonjour, BASENJI!
Today's crossword was an homage to a state that seems to be bursting at the seams with National Parks, and that state would be ... [REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE SPS (SPOILER PREVENTION SOCIETY)]. In addi...
17 Sep 10min
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 — All Cohosts Present and Accounted For, Suh!
There was cause for much celebration at JAMDTNYTC HQ, as the J of the aforementioned podcast made her triumphant return to the studio. She chose an auspicious day to do so, because the crossword was ...
16 Sep 11min
Monday, September 14, 2026 — 🎶 Daylight Come and Me Wanna Go ... Solve a Crossword 🎶🙄🍌
Today's crossword — a joint effort by Andrea Carla Michaels and Dena R. Verkuil — had a lot of appeal, and if that generates peals of laughter, then this sentence will have done its job! Being a Mond...
15 Sep 6min
Sunday, September 13, 2026 — Hey, It's a Tiny Escape Room 😀
Today's crossword — a very nice piece of work by Henry Lin-David and Frank S. David — featured an adorable, tiny escape room! You can't miss it — it's right in the center of the grid — and you also ca...
14 Sep 6min
Saturday, September 12, 2026 — An *Effervescent* Saturday Crossword!
It's not often that we get to haul "effervescent" out of long-term storage, dust it off, and plant it where it needs planting, but today is one of those days, for the crossword, by Adam Wagner and Mic...
13 Sep 4min
Friday, September 11, 2026 — Robyn Weintraub Is Back, and We Are Better for It!
Considering that this is Robyn Weintraub's 37th Friday crossword(!), she has certainly earned the sobriquet, the Queen of Fridays. We hope she wears her crown at a jaunty angle, in honor of the many ...
12 Sep 14min
