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 Mars 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 18min
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - The State of the Crossword ... is *Excellent!* 😀
This was a fine Tuesday crossword by Adam Aaronson, with a subtle theme and a subtler revealer. We were surprised to see, among the 6 debut answers in today's puzzle, 24A, Fender Stratocaster, e.g., E...
25 Feb 15min
Monday, February 23, 2026 - Alright, there's a DELOREAN in the grid!!
It's hard not to like a crossword with a DELOREAN in the grid, as we can attest: we adored today's puzzle, the fourth in the NYTimes by Hannah Binney. There was a certain novelty and freshness to the ...
24 Feb 12min
Sunday, February 22, 2026 - A crossword of biblical proportions (no, jk, it's 21x21 as usual 😉)
This was a delectable Sunday crossword by Jill Rataloff and Michelle Sontarp, who happen to both work at the same law firm. That might explain 21A, Certain head jurors, FOREMEN, and 125A, Bars, legall...
23 Feb 18min
Saturday, February 21, 2026 - Now *that's* a Saturday crossword!
Traditionally, NYTimes crosswords increase in difficulty from Monday to Saturday*. So, if you had problems with today's puzzle, that's perfectly normal and by design: it was built that way. The clues...
21 Feb 16min
