Monday, October 6, 2025 - TEVAs, the favorite footwear of divas 🙄

Rachel Grey and John Kugelman have collaborated on a very clever Thursday crossword, based on a dizzying theme that it took both cohosts no little time to suss out. Fortunately — and we have proof — o...

9 Okt 11min

Listeners may recall that the appearance of ROTI or NAAN in the grid immediately drives us to xwordinfo.com to check out the number of times each has appeared in a crossword. As a consequence of today...

8 Okt 13min

This was definitely a Tuesday crossword, and we say that not just because of the calendar. The clues were slightly trickier than yesterday's, but still eminently doable with a little cogitation (and a...

7 Okt 14min

It's been a hot minute since Chase Dittrich's last NYTimes crossword, but he's here now with a fine Monday effort. The theme was engineered for Monday solvers, and while most of the answers were commo...

6 Okt 9min

Kathryn Bale's absolutely fabulous debut crossword is in honor of a holiday that we had no idea existed until tackling Kathryn's puzzle. In our defense, the holiday first came into existence in 2020, ...

5 Okt 12min

Kameron Austin Collins, aka KAC, specializes in tough Friday and Saturday crosswords. Today's is a perfect example, with cunning clueing everywhere you look in the grid. We can't say enough good thing...

4 Okt 13min

This was a perfectly crafted crossword to wrap up the work week — not too hard, not too easy, but juuuuust right. It included some awesome clues, for example: 57A, Figure with three faces, in Dante, S...

3 Okt 13min

Jill Singer's fourth NYTimes crossword was a great way to start October, with a legion of edutaining clues — and if that's not a real portmanteau, let's just call it slang and move on 😀. We certainly...

2 Okt 10min