Monday, July 6, 2026 — Nothing DECREPIT about this crossword, it's all shiny and new! ✨
This was a pleasing Monday crossword, with a straightforward, amusing theme, and clues unlikely to generate too many BLANKSTARES. It was penned by Alex Eaton-Salners, who rarely does Monday crosswords...
7 Jul 15min
Sunday, July 5, 2026 — Set Pun Guns™️ to Stun!
Apparently Rich Katz had a few fireworks left over from yesterday, and managed to slip them into today's puzzle: it just sizzles with creativity, and will have you ooh-ing and ah-ing on the way to th...
6 Jul 14min
Saturday, July 4, 2026 — 🎆 Happy Fourth!!!!🎇🎆
Kareem Ayas has returned and brought along an excellent crossword to help us celebrate the Fourth. The clues were delightful, each precisely engineered to perplex, educate, and entertain. They succeed...
5 Jul 12min
Friday, July 3, 2026 — Happy Fourth Eve! 🎇
Barbara Lin is a highly versatile constructor — she has made crosswords for every day of the week, and this is her second Friday creation. The grid had a daunting amount of white space in it, with 4 g...
4 Jul 16min
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 — Happy 🇨🇦 Day!
Today's crossword was a marvel of clever crossword construction, and a hoot to boot — practically guaranteed to put a smile on your face, make your jaw drop, or possibly both, simultaneously. In short...
2 Jul 13min
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 — Adios, June, It Was Good Knowin' Ya!
Congratulations to John Liber, for getting his very first crossword published in the NYTimes! It was a fine effort, with a phonetically phunny theme, and several surprising clues. For instance, do you...
1 Jul 15min
Monday, June 29, 2026 — One day you'll rue the day, you ROUE, you! 🙄😉
Today's crossword marks the first collaboration between Ginny Too and Rajeswari Rajamani, and it turned out rather nicely, with theme answers that were almost as much fun to say as they were to solve....
30 Jun 12min
