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Sunday, March 8, 2026 - Happy International Women's Day!!
Season 15 Episode 86
Kelly Richardson has crafted a delightful and timely puzzle in honor of INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY, in which all of the crosses are the names of famous w…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Saturday, March 7, 2026 - Red Alert! There's a Saturday Streak Smasher™️ at 12 o'clock, closing fast!
Season 15 Episode 85
If crosswords were animals, then today's, by Fritz Juhnke, would be Godzilla, smashing its way through streaks like nobody's business. Fritz was rele…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Friday, March 6, 2026 - Adrian Johnson dials it up to 11!
Season 15 Episode 84
Ah, this was a rigorous Friday crossword — the kind that, after you've solved it (er, if you've solved it), makes you feel a little taller, and compe…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Thursday, March 5, 2026 - Pee Wee REESE, champion of the oppressed and a *colossus* on the playing field
Season 15 Episode 83
Making any crossword is challenging; but making a crossword like this one seems almost impossible. Fortunately, constructor Hanh Huynh doesn't know t…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - Wowzers, this crossword was aaaaaaawesome!!
Season 15 Episode 82
Wayne Bergman has crafted a brilliant Wednesday crossword, with several genuinely LOL clues. We discuss several in today's episode, but we'd also lik…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - By gum, this crossword really SLAPS! 😀
Season 15 Episode 81
This was a terrific Tuesday crossword by Drew Schmenner, his seventh for the NYTimes since 2021. As expected, it ticked all the right boxes:
a kind, g…7 months, 3 weeks ago
Monday, March 2, 2026 - Mmm, pass me another slice of that ol' tres LECHES cake 😋
Season 15 Episode 80
This was a very pleasing debut crossword by Leslie Benson, who provides, on xwordinfo.com, an amusing description of this puzzle's construction — som…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - In like a 🦁, out like a 🐑
Season 15 Episode 79
Some of the NYTimes' finest crosswords were created by university students. For example, consider, oh, say, today's, by Western University students M…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Saturday, February 28, 2026 - A FEDORA in the grid? Now *that's* class! 😀
Season 15 Episode 78
This marks Adam Levav's fourth NYTimes crossword in just over a year, and you can see from today's awesome puzzle why he keeps getting published. Thi…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Friday, February 27, 2026 - Happy AEOF (Almost-End-of-February) Day!
Season 15 Episode 77
Today's crossword was a debut by Caroline Hand. Getting any crossword published in the NYTimes is an incredible achievement — and to debut on a Frida…
7 months, 4 weeks ago