Sunday, April 12, 2026 - Oh, paradise! PARADIDDLE is in the grid 😍
We did not know, until several hours ago, that PARADIDDLE was a word. But now that we do, we're going to try and work it into conversation whenever, and however, we can. That will not be easy, alas, b...
13 Apr 9min
Saturday, April 11, 2026 — A classy crossword (you can tell: it has MASERATIS in the grid 😀)
Our intrepid cohosts, solving independently as usual, took very different crossword solving journeys in tackling this, Kareem Ayas' tenth NYTimes opus. Jean found it a walk in the park; Mike found it ...
12 Apr 9min
Friday, April 10, 2026 — Dale Chihuly, glass artist extraordinaire!
Dale Chihuly is an incredibly gifted artist, but AFAWCT he has never appeared in the grid of the NYTimes crossword. Consequently, it was most gratifying to at least see his name in a clue, specifical...
11 Apr 13min
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
