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Friday, May 1, 2026 — Pro Tip: If Your Baguette is Extra Crunchy, You Might Be Eating the Wrong Kind of Baguette 😉😱😀
Season 16 Episode 37
Kudos to Rena Cohen for crafting an excellent crossword, her first to appear on a Friday. The clues were quite interesting: we always appreciate cros…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Thursday, April 30, 2026 — RUBE Goldberg, cartoonist and inventor extraordinaire!
Season 16 Episode 36
When Aristotle wrote that "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts", he most likely did not have crossword constructors Lance Enfinger and Joh…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 — Uber Nerd Alert! The Trisolarans Got a Mention in Today's Crossword 🛸😀
Season 16 Episode 35
Joseph Gangi's eighth NYTimes crossword was so much more than a mere middling midweek crossword: it had a splendid array of intriguing clues. We love…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 — Welcome, King Charles!!
Season 16 Episode 34
King Charles is stateside, and it had been such a fervent hope of ours that the NYTimes crossword theme would celebrate his arrival that we might hav…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Monday, April 27, 2026 — A Very Respectable, Vonderfully Researched Monday Crossword 😉
Season 16 Episode 33
Neville Fogarty has published an NYTimes crossword every day of the week save Saturday. Today he had the foot off the pedal, resulting in this kinder…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sunday, April 26, 2026 — How Do You Spot a Great Restaurant? They Offer EVOO on the Menu 😀
Season 16 Episode 32
Rebecca Goldstein has delivered a fine Sunday crossword with gems scattered throughout the grid. Our favorites included 119A, It has its ups and down…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Saturday, April 25, 2026 — A Sam Ezersky Original 😍
Season 16 Episode 31
There is no doubt that Sam Ezersky is very good at writing Saturday-level crosswords — he has had 23 of them published since 2012 (out of a total of …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Friday, April 24, 2026 — Look out, Andrew Spooner is back with yet another killer crossword!!!
Season 16 Episode 30
This was an unexpectedly crunchy Friday crossword, with lots of brilliantly concealed traps for the unwary solver. We loved every "there goes the ol'…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - A *brilliant* Thursday treat!
Season 16 Episode 29
This is Zhou Zhang and Kevin Curry's second collaboration, and it is an uber-awesome bit of cruciverbal magic. They started with a chef's kiss of a t…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - Happy Earth Day!!
Season 16 Episode 28
Today's crossword was an homage to Earth Day, and we loved it! One of the big no-no's in crossword construction was ignored in the making of today's …
1 month, 4 weeks ago