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Sunday, April 12, 2026 - Oh, paradise! PARADIDDLE is in the grid 😍
Season 16 Episode 19
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, …
1 week, 4 days ago
Saturday, April 11, 2026 — A classy crossword (you can tell: it has MASERATIS in the grid 😀)
Season 16 Episode 18
Our intrepid cohosts, solving independently as usual, took very different crossword solving journeys in tackling this, Kareem Ayas' tenth NYTimes opu…
1 week, 5 days ago
Friday, April 10, 2026 — Dale Chihuly, glass artist extraordinaire!
Season 16 Episode 17
Dale Chihuly is an incredibly gifted artist, but AFAWCT he has never appeared in the grid of the NYTimes crossword. Consequently, it was most gratify…
1 week, 6 days ago
Thursday, April 9, 2026 - A scrumdiddlyumptious Thursday crossword!
Season 16 Episode 16
Today's grid is sweet — literally, thanks to all those delicious, disguised dessert items. Fortunately, they are the virtual kind, and therefore high…
2 weeks ago
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 — RaPUNzel definitely would've approved of this crossword 🙄
Season 16 Episode 15
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…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 — This crossword definitely has our vote!
Season 16 Episode 14
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 clue…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Monday, April 6, 2026 — It's been 5 years, but the BATSIGNAL is back!
Season 16 Episode 13
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 fr…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Sunday, April 5, 2026 - Let's hear it for Baaaaaahd Advertising 😀 🐑
Season 16 Episode 12
This was Samuel A. Donaldson's 42nd NYTimes crossword, and it is joyous, with effervescent clues and answers that richly reward the diligent solver. …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Saturday, April 4, 2026 - Was this a fine Saturday crossword? YESINDEEDY!
Season 16 Episode 11
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…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Thursday, April 2, 2026 - A crossword guaranteed to provide at least 50% of an AHA! moment 🤣
Season 16 Episode 10
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 …
3 weeks ago