The SAVANNAH BANANAS are hilarious. They play baseball under slightly, uh, modified rules. My favorite: if a fan in the stands catches a foul ball, the batter is out!
23-Down: Doesn't Pope John XXIII mean there were 23 Pope Johns? John XVI was an antipope and there is no John XX. That leaves 21.
– puzzle by Jim Quinlan
Sun 7/12/2026 Slight Adjustments
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ORAL STAGE makes its NYT debut today, reinforcing Ms. Lempel's reputation for delightfully cheeky entries. Some of her other debuts:
Those are all fine, of course, unless you have your MIND IN THE GUTTER (which she also debuted.)
– puzzle by Lynn Lempel
Tue 7/14/2026
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Squares in the central 3x3 block are circled in print. They contain an anagram of ERNÅ RUBIK, the cube's inventor.
If you solve on the NYT website, the colored letters shuffle around to spell out the name.
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Thu 7/16/2026
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Genuinely funny theme!
– puzzle by Zhou Zhang and Mallory Montgomery
Fri 7/17/2026
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Theme answers rise up through capital cities and continue across. So 25-Across starts THANKSA, rises up through LIMA (reading it backward), and continues through LLION to make THANKS A MILLION.
Bern, Cairo, Rabat, Oslo, Rome, and Riga get similar treatment. Answers here are fixed up to match the clues.
– puzzle by Michael Lieberman
Mon 7/20/2026
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Circled letters spelling RING arc through the air and land on a BOTTLE.
– puzzle by Rebecca Goldstein
Thu 7/23/2026
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I would have clued 19-Across as "How a confident conductor shows off". (Guilty.)
– puzzle by Damon Gulczynski
Fri 7/24/2026
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Outstanding clues today.
– puzzle by Katie Hoody
Sun 7/26/2026 Down the Tubes
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A full solfège scale runs through the gray squares in order.
– puzzle by Aidan Deshong
Tue 7/28/2026
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Replace the first letter of each italicized clue with its NATO alphabet equivalent.
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Cluster
C + luster
Charlie + sheen
Agent
A + gent
Alpha + male
Steam
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Sierra + club
Gambit
G + ambit
Golf + range
– puzzle by Joel Woodford
Fri 7/31/2026
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Around 1637, French mathematician Pierre de Fermat was reading his personal copy of Diophantus's ancient Greek math text, Arithmetica (translated into Latin).
When he came across a section on Pythagorean triples (equations of the form a2 + b2 = c2), Fermat posited that no three positive integers a, b, and c could satisfy the equation: an + bn = cn for any integer value of n > 2.
Right beside the problem in the book, Fermat scribbled a famous note in Latin:
"Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet."
("I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this proposition, which this margin is too narrow to contain.")
Fermat died without ever publishing his proof. It was finally proven over 350 years later by British mathematician Andrew Wiles.