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Highest flow Thursday crosswords
Bloggers and solvers sometimes talk about whether grids have good "flow".
That's an informal, intuitive notion, but it can be quantified using the concept of algebraic connectivity.
Flow values for Modern Era crosswords range from 0.0 (puzzle has disconnected regions) to 219.2,
with a median value of 31.8. (Half of all puzzles have flow below the median, half above.)
Only Modern Era crosswords are considered here.
Top constructors and grids:
Thu 2/5/2015
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Thu 4/24/1997
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Thu 8/30/2007
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Thu 8/17/2006
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Thu 2/2/2012
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Rank | Date | Author | Flow |
1. | Thu Feb 5, 2015 | Mike Buckley | 135.0 |
2. | Thu Apr 24, 1997 | David J. Kahn | 112.6 |
3. | Thu Aug 30, 2007 | Victor Fleming and Bruce Venzke | 97.3 |
4. | Thu Aug 17, 2006 | Harvey Estes | 92.1 |
5. | Thu Feb 2, 2012 | Stu Ockman | 88.4 |
6. | Thu Dec 12, 2019 | Alex Eaton-Salners | 86.8 |
7. | Thu Aug 18, 2016 | Parker Lewis and Jeff Chen | 85.9 |
8. | Thu Jun 7, 2001 | Randolph Ross | 80.2 |
9. | Thu Nov 21, 2024 | Katie Hoody | 79.2 |
10. | Thu Jan 20, 2011 | Michael Shteyman | 77.6 |
11. | Thu Jun 19, 2014 | Timothy Polin | 77.3 |
12. | Thu Mar 3, 2005 | Byron Walden | 76.0 |
13. | Thu Dec 6, 2001 | Richard Silvestri | 73.3 |
14. | Thu Aug 8, 1996 | D. J. Kahn | 73.0 |
15. | Thu Mar 5, 2009 | David J. Kahn | 72.0 |
16. | Thu Aug 10, 2000 | Mark Diehl | 70.9 |
17. | Thu Sep 24, 2015 | Peter A. Collins | 70.2 |
18. | Thu May 12, 2005 | Manny Nosowsky | 69.1 |
19. | Thu Nov 11, 1999 | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon | 69.0 |
20. | Thu Aug 31, 1995 | David J. Kahn | 67.8 |
21. | Thu Aug 23, 2018 | Kyle Dolan | 66.7 |
22. | Thu Aug 12, 2004 | David J. Kahn | 66.2 |
23. | Thu Apr 9, 2015 | Jacob Stulberg | 65.7 |
24. | Thu Sep 28, 1995 | Matt Gaffney | 65.2 |
25. | Thu Jun 29, 2017 | Rich Proulx | 64.8 |
26. | Thu Mar 29, 2007 | David J. Kahn | 64.0 |
27. | Thu Oct 25, 2012 | Caleb Rasmussen | 63.0 |
28. | Thu Sep 14, 2006 | Karen M. Tracey | 62.5 |
29. | Thu Feb 12, 2004 | Craig Kasper | 62.2 |
30. | Thu Dec 16, 2010 | Charles Deber | 61.5 |
31. | Thu Apr 10, 1997 | David J. Kahn | 61.3 |
32. | Thu Nov 21, 1996 | M. Ashwood-Smith | 61.2 |
33. | Thu Apr 11, 1996 | R. Hamel | 60.9 |
34. | Thu Dec 26, 2019 | Trenton Charlson | 60.7 |
| Thu Mar 9, 2000 | Myles Callum | |
36. | Thu Jan 31, 2019 | Peter A. Collins | 60.6 |
37. | Thu Mar 6, 1997 | Shannon Burns | 60.5 |
38. | Thu Mar 16, 1995 | A.J. Santora | 59.9 |
39. | Thu Oct 11, 2012 | Byron Walden | 59.4 |
40. | Thu Apr 29, 2010 | David J. W. Simpson | 57.9 |
41. | Thu Jun 16, 1994 | Jim Page | 57.7 |
42. | Thu Apr 11, 2019 | Brendan Emmett Quigley | 57.5 |
43. | Thu Mar 12, 1998 | Fred Piscop | 57.5 |
44. | Thu Feb 15, 2018 | Peter Gordon | 57.2 |
45. | Thu Dec 26, 1996 | R. H. Burns | 57.1 |
46. | Thu Sep 5, 2024 | Joe Deeney | 56.6 |
47. | Thu May 13, 2021 | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword Class | 56.4 |
48. | Thu Nov 9, 2017 | Bruce Haight | 55.8 |
49. | Thu Oct 8, 2015 | Stu Ockman | 55.8 |
50. | Thu Oct 29, 2009 | Joe Krozel | 55.7 |
51. | Thu Jan 14, 1999 | Rand H. Burns | 55.3 |
52. | Thu Oct 5, 2017 | Alan Arbesfeld | 55.0 |
53. | Thu May 4, 2006 | Rob Richardson | 54.6 |
54. | Thu Jul 11, 1996 | David J. Kahn | 54.4 |
55. | Thu Jun 4, 2015 | Joe Krozel | 54.3 |
56. | Thu Sep 25, 1997 | Mark Diehl | 54.1 |
57. | Thu Oct 25, 2007 | Susan Harrington Smith | 54.1 |
58. | Thu Apr 4, 2013 | Corey Rubin | 54.0 |
59. | Thu Aug 26, 1999 | Nancy S. Ross | 53.7 |
60. | Thu Feb 4, 2016 | Jeff Chen | 53.6 |
61. | Thu Oct 21, 2004 | Harvey Estes | 53.5 |
62. | Thu Feb 10, 2011 | Derek Bowman | 53.4 |
63. | Thu May 20, 2010 | Jim Hilger | 53.2 |
64. | Thu Mar 22, 2001 | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes | 53.2 |
65. | Thu Feb 20, 1997 | D. J. Kahn | 52.9 |
66. | Thu Sep 16, 1999 | Bill Ballard | 52.8 |
67. | Thu Jun 9, 1994 | Charles B. Waffell | 52.8 |
68. | Thu Jun 23, 2016 | Megan Amram and David Kwong | 52.3 |
| Thu May 18, 2023 | Kiran Pandey | |
70. | Thu Jan 28, 2010 | Raymond C. Young | 52.2 |
71. | Thu Nov 17, 2005 | Brendan Emmett Quigley | 52.1 |
72. | Thu Apr 2, 1998 | Alex K. Justin | 51.7 |
73. | Thu Aug 15, 2013 | Jeff Chen | 51.1 |
74. | Thu Jun 5, 1997 | David J. Kahn | 50.9 |
75. | Thu Mar 14, 2024 | Jeffrey Martinovic | 50.8 |
76. | Thu Jan 10, 2019 | Jeff Slutzky and Derek Bowman | 50.8 |
77. | Thu Jun 3, 2004 | Mike Torch | 50.6 |
78. | Thu Sep 27, 2012 | Joel Fagliano | 50.6 |
79. | Thu Mar 29, 2018 | Claire Muscat and David Steinberg | 50.6 |
80. | Thu Sep 8, 2022 | Matthew Stock | 50.5 |
81. | Thu May 24, 2001 | William I. Johnston | 50.4 |
| Thu May 16, 2024 | Sara Muchnick | |
83. | Thu Nov 22, 2012 | Joel Fagliano | 50.3 |
| Thu Dec 19, 2013 | George Barany and Michael Shteyman | |
85. | Thu Jul 6, 2017 | Erik Agard | 50.2 |
| Thu Nov 17, 1994 | Rich Norris | |
87. | Thu Mar 27, 2008 | Joe Krozel | 50.1 |
88. | Thu Mar 28, 2002 | Manny Nosowsky | 50.1 |
89. | Thu Nov 23, 1995 | Dorothy Elliott | 50.1 |
90. | Thu Feb 11, 2016 | Zhouqin Burnikel | 49.9 |
91. | Thu Aug 16, 2012 | Ethan Cooper | 49.9 |
92. | Thu Nov 3, 2022 | Chase Dittrich and Jeff Chen | 49.8 |
93. | Thu Dec 11, 1997 | Trip Payne | 49.7 |
94. | Thu May 8, 1997 | David J. Kahn | 49.5 |
95. | Thu Aug 8, 2019 | Timothy Polin | 49.1 |
96. | Thu Aug 28, 2014 | Ned White | 49.0 |
97. | Thu Dec 29, 1994 | Jim Page | 48.9 |
98. | Thu Jun 15, 2000 | Edgar R. Fontaine | 48.9 |
99. | Thu Aug 28, 2008 | Sheldon Benardo | 48.8 |
100. | Thu Oct 6, 2016 | Timothy Polin | 48.6 |