Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Friday, October 23, 2026 — Happy Mole Day🧪😁
Season 18 Episode 4
This was an excellent and challenging Friday crossword by Katie Hoody, who is well known for her excellent and challenging (predominantly Saturday) p…
3 weeks ago
October 22, 2026 — The Wrath of Khan? Nah, More Like The Really Awesome Crossword of Kahn 😀
Season 18 Episode 3
Today's crossword was an awesome bit of work by David J. Kahn, a highly accomplished crossword constructor who first published in the NYTimes in 1994…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 — Yup, Today's Crossword Deserves an A+
Season 18 Episode 2
Although your cohosts — currently sporting their higher-ed caps while writing this — are staunchly against grade inflation, they don't feel the sligh…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 — Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Introducing Our Best Tuesday Podcast This Week! 😉
Season 18 Episode 1
Today marks the NYTimes debut for crossword constructor David Falkowski, and a fine debut it is. The theme was smile-inducing, as were, come to think…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Monday, October 19, 2026 — Off We Go, to OSWEGO 🙄
Season 17 Episode 100
Both cohosts found today's crossword to be a jot crunchier than the typical Monday fare in places. It started off almost comically easy, but then see…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Sunday, October 18, 2026 — Hello, LORELEI!
Season 17 Episode 99
Today marks Peter Gorman's debut Sunday crossword. He has now published every day of the week except Friday and Saturday, but, based on how quickly h…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Saturday, October 17, 2026 — Yup, This Was a Saturday Crossword Alright! 😀 😱
Season 17 Episode 98
Saturday crosswords are, by tradition — at least since Will Shortz took over as editor — the toughest puzzles of the week, and today's definitely qua…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Friday, October, 16, 2026 — No, You Can't Play an EBOW With An ELBOW 🙄😂
Season 17 Episode 97
Today's crossword was a debut for Adam Shapiro — but it wasn't for a lack of trying. He has had 15 previous submissions to the NYTimes rejected, so t…
4 weeks ago
Thursday, October 15, 2026 — You Can't Hide from the Ides 🙄
Season 17 Episode 96
Today's crossword was an absolutely terrific debut by McKay Fritz, with another one of those delightful and, as expected, thoroughly unexpected theme…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 — Happy National Curd Day Eve 🧀 😍
Season 17 Episode 95
Today's crossword, by Jacob Stulberg, celebrated a scourge of modern civilization, a negative answer to the phrase made famous by Verizon — "Can you …
4 weeks, 2 days ago