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Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - The world definitely needs more SOFAFORTS 🤗
Season 14 Episode 56
Jean found today's crossword to be a tad more difficult than usual; Mike found it almost, but not quite, impossible, thanks to the high density of po…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Monday, October 27, 2025 - We'll take a flier on how to spell FLYER 😀
Season 14 Episode 55
This was Tarun Krishnamurthy's third NYTimes crossword: he now has two Mondays and a Tuesday under his belt. Today's opus had an endearing theme and …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Sunday, October 26, 2025 - A Titan might find a CHITON a bit tight on 'em 😉
Season 14 Episode 54
The last few crosswords have been rather on the challenging side and while Will and co. (co, in this case, being collaborators Gary Larson and Doug …
4 months ago
Saturday, October 25, 2025 - Just in time for Halloween, a Very Scary Solve 🫣
Season 14 Episode 53
Byron Walden has had 110 crosswords published in the NYTimes, of which 71 were Saturdays. If you are wondering why, then take a gander at today's gri…
4 months ago
Friday, October 24, 2025 - A *brilliant* Friday debut by Kelvin Zhou
Season 14 Episode 52
It is hard to believe that today's crossword was a debut, but ... believe it! By turns elegant, hilarious, engaging and definitely taxing, both cohos…
4 months ago
Thursday, October 23, 2025 - Life would be *perfect* ... if only we could buy ALDOs at ALDI's 🙄😉
Season 14 Episode 51
This were a lot of jewels in today's grid, including, well, JOULES (56A, Units equal to roughly a quarter of a calorie). We also were glad to learn t…
4 months ago
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - A crossword you can count on, mais oui!
This was a gem of a Wednesday crossword. The theme was, as you might expect, unexpected: the rest of the grid, as you might also expect, excellent. W…
4 months ago
Tuesday, October 20, 2025 - Winter in Wisconsin? Brrrrrrrrrring it on 😀 ☃️
Season 14 Episode 49
Spencer Leach's crosswords have appeared most frequently on Saturday*, meaning he likes to make 'em tough. Todays is his first Tuesday outing, and it…
4 months ago
Monday, October 20, 2025 - All hail HAYAO Miyazaki, animator extraordinaire!
Season 14 Episode 48
This was a nice Monday crossword, the 17th by Adam Aaronson, who is more partial to Saturday but we're glad to see him wander over to this half of th…
4 months ago
Sunday, October 19, 2025 - A crossword with just the right number of CRONUTs 😀 🍩
Season 14 Episode 47
This was a truly epic Sunday crossword by Daniel Grinberg, one with a theme guaranteed to put a smile on your face and/or cause your jaw to drop in a…
4 months, 1 week ago