Thursday, April 2, 2026 - A crossword guaranteed to provide at least 50% of an AHA! moment 🤣
We are always partial to crosswords with KAZOO in the grid, but that is not the only reason why we are so enamored with today's puzzle. No, they had us at the theme — perfect for a Thursday — and kept...
3 Apr 14min
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 - Today's crossword was one fool the ages 🙄
If you forgot that today was April 1st, fear not — the NYTimes Crossword is here just in the nick of time to remind you. They do it, unsurprisingly, in a surprising and highly amusing way. We'll say n...
2 Apr 11min
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - All hail the SITSKI!
This was a well-crafted Tuesday crossword (and not just because of 52A, Cloudy craft beer, HAZYIPA). No, there were many other clever clues that contributed to this assessment, including 10D, "Aaron B...
1 Apr 16min
Monday, March 30, 2026 - We don't want to be too MODESTO, but we figured out MODESTO 🙄
Gary Cee's crosswords have appeared 41 times in the NYTimes since 2009, mainly on Mondays and Tuesdays — he knows the territory well. This crossword had a "predictable" Monday theme — but predictable ...
31 Mar 17min
Sunday, March 29, 2026 - When should we stop making puns about roundabouts? Oh, roundabout now 🙄
This was a crunchy Sunday crossword, with much of the crunch coming from Michael and Oliver Schlossbergs' dizzyingly brilliant theme. As fans of both crosswords and roundabouts, we were absolutely del...
30 Mar 18min
Saturday, March 28, 2026 - The Queen of Saturdays is Back!
Katie Hoody, the Queen of Saturdays, is back again with an excellent example of the genre. In today's puzzle, the clues were deliciously deceiving, but the amount of pop culture sufficiently tamped do...
29 Mar 9min
Friday, March 27, 2026 - Siri's great, great, great, grandfather, R.U.D.I. 😀
Today's crossword, a fine effort by Zachary David Levy, will not induce neuralgia, aka BRAINFREEZE, rather just the opposite: it will cause those billions of neurons to put in time-and-a-half in orde...
28 Mar 22min
Thursday, March 26, 2026 - A crossword that will make you soar, not sore 😀
Yesterday's crossword was all about sequels, and today's crossword is itself a sequel — the second for constructor Alex Murphy. That could be coincidence, or it could be another example of Will Shortz...
27 Mar 18min
