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Saturday, August 15, 2026 — Blake Slonecker Dials It Up To Eleven!
Season 17 Episode 35
This was a challenging Saturday crossword, requiring that both cohosts really put their backs into it — which, since we are talking about crosswords,…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Friday, August 14, 2026 — Zhou Zhang's Friday Debut is a Beaut!
Season 17 Episode 34
Zhou Zhang is gradually working through the days of the week: this crossword marked her Friday debut. The only days on which she has not published ar…
3 months ago
Thursday, August 13, 2026 — Killian Olson's Killer Thursday 😀
Season 17 Episode 33
Killian Olson has put together a very crunchy Thursday crossword for your puzzle-solving pleasure. We found it to be quite the workout. The theme was…
3 months ago
Wednesday, August 12, 2026 — Attention All Techies, Your Time Has Come 😀 📡
Season 17 Episode 32
This midweek crossword was short (well for some: YMMV) and sweet, with a theme that did a fine job of melding two of our favorite activities: cruisin…
3 months ago
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 — Alright, Our Favorite Psychedelic Rock Band Named After a Body Part Is in the Grid 😀
Season 17 Episode 31
Today's crossword, a debut (😃) by Wade Bednar, combined music and dynasties — specifically Chinese dynasties — in an absolutely ingenious way. But W…
3 months ago
Monday, August 10, 2026 — It's National Lazy Day! We'd Celebrate, But, YKNOW ... 🙄
Season 17 Episode 30
Nate Cardin's 8th NYTimes crossword was a quintessential Monday puzzle. For one thing, it didn't have QUINTESSENTIAL in the grid. This is not particu…
3 months ago
Sunday, August 9, 2026 —My, Grandma, What Long Answers You Have 😀
Season 17 Episode 29
Making any Sunday crossword is definitely not easy. Making one with a two-high stack of grid spanning answers is amazing; and making one with 2 two-h…
3 months ago
Saturday, August 8, 2026 — Roll Up Those Sleeves, It's Time to STEEVE 🙄
Season 17 Episode 28
This was Kameron Austin Collins' 20th Saturday NYTimes crossword, and his name at the top of the marquee is pretty much an ironclad guarantee that we…
3 months ago
Friday, August 7, 2026 — Booyah, Jesse Cohn Has Assembled a *Panoply* of Clever Clues!
Season 17 Episode 27
This is Jesse Cohn's fourth Friday NYTimes crossword, and it checks all the right boxes:
Tough, but not soul-crushing ✅Educational ✅Highly entertainin…3 months, 1 week ago
Thursday, August 6, 2026 — A Highly Filling Thursday Crossword 😂
Season 17 Episode 26
Today's podcast title — we promise! — will seem quite droll, even, dare we say it, chuckleworthy, once you've sussed out today's theme. We won't say…
3 months, 1 week ago