Thursday, April 9, 2026 - A scrumdiddlyumptious Thursday crossword!
Today's grid is sweet — literally, thanks to all those delicious, disguised dessert items. Fortunately, they are the virtual kind, and therefore highly unlikely to wreck your diet. In addition to the...
10 Apr 11min
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 — RaPUNzel definitely would've approved of this crossword 🙄
This was a fine debut crossword by Philippe Monfiston. It had oodles of interesting clues, a score of bad (by which we mean good 😀) musical puns, and was just the right degree of difficulty for a Wed...
9 Apr 15min
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 — This crossword definitely has our vote!
Kudos to Adryel W. Robles Ojeda for getting their very first crossword published in the NYTimes. We found it both fun and fast. We liked all the clues in today's puzzle, but among those that we did no...
8 Apr 18min
Monday, April 6, 2026 — It's been 5 years, but the BATSIGNAL is back!
BATSIGNAL has appeared a total of 4 times in the NYTimes crossword — once in 2014, twice in 2020, and today. The real BATSIGNAL shows up much more frequently in DC Comics, and continues to this day to...
7 Apr 15min
Sunday, April 5, 2026 - Let's hear it for Baaaaaahd Advertising 😀 🐑
This was Samuel A. Donaldson's 42nd NYTimes crossword, and it is joyous, with effervescent clues and answers that richly reward the diligent solver. The themed answers were particularly fabulous, but ...
6 Apr 14min
Saturday, April 4, 2026 - Was this a fine Saturday crossword? YESINDEEDY!
This was Royce Ferguson's third Saturday NYTimes crossword, and it was highly enjoyable. It was not a walk in the park, but neither was it the "scale El Capitan by one's teeth" type of puzzle that it ...
5 Apr 9min
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
