I wonder if this will start a crossword trend: Mom, Dad, I'm broke / sorry / quitting college / Democrat / LDS / vegan / published in the NYT / ...
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Tue 6/2/2026
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The starts of the first four theme answers sound like 2, 4, 6, 8.
– puzzle by Rich Katz
Wed 6/3/2026
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The repeated letters spell OR ELSE — a triple (letter) threat itself!
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Thu 6/4/2026
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Fri 6/5/2026
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Coat on a tip? Ah, fingertip. Brilliant.
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Sat 6/6/2026
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As Daniel implies in his notes, this amazing grid shatters the 15x15 record for most open squares — white squares that do not touch black squares, even diagonally.
As you'll see in this thumbnail view, many of the highest-open-count grids are quite segmented, meaning low "flow" values. Think of today's as four mini-Saturday crosswords that happen to connect in the middle.
– puzzle by Daniel Bodily
Sun 6/7/2026 Split Seconds
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When consecutive groups of three across answers are grouped together, you have to split the second and parse them as only two answers (two out of the three):
Grid Reads As
Parses To
GATECH / ANGELIC / ENSURE
GATE CHANGE + LICENSURE
SOLI / STENCHES / STABLES
SO LISTEN + CHESS TABLES
MADRE / SPECTATED / INNER
MAD RESPECT + ATE DINNER
CHIAS / MUSCLEMEN / TINES
CHIASMUS + CLEMENTINES
THEREST / IMEANTIT / HEFT
THERE'S TIME + ANTI-THEFT
WASABI / TODDLES / OFTEN
WAS A BIT ODD + LESS OFTEN
LICENSURE is the process by which a government agency grants an individual legal permission to work in a regulated profession.
A famous CHIASMUS: "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
– puzzle by Adam Wagner and Simeon Seigel
Mon 6/8/2026
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50-Across: PARAMOUNT reparses as PAR AMOUNT, i.e., how many occurrences of PAR appear in the answer.
– puzzle by Tom McCoy
Tue 6/9/2026
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The circled three-letter strings are the FIFA country codes for each nation that has won the World Cup:
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Years in clue
BRA
Brazil
1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002
FRA
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1998, 2018
ARG
Argentina
1978, 1986, 2022
URU
Uruguay
1930, 1950
GER
Germany
1954, 1974, 1990, 2014
ITA
Italy
1934, 1938, 1982, 2006
ENG
England
1966
ESP
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2010
– puzzle by David J. Kahn and Ethan Quigley
Thu 6/11/2026
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Sound out the numbers in the theme clues as Roman Numerals:
TWO CAPTAIN → I I (aye aye) CAPTAIN
HUNDRED LEGS → C (sea) LEGS
FORTY SHEETS → XL (Excel) SHEETS
FOUR LEAGUE → IV (Ivy) LEAGUE
– puzzle by Nikhil Bailey
Fri 6/12/2026
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Sun 6/14/2026 Limited Runs
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Each themer uses exactly four distinct letters.
– puzzle by John Kugelman
Mon 6/15/2026
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A pencil sharpener, a jack-in-the-box, and a salad spinner are all things you crank.
– puzzle by Eric Rollfing
Tue 6/16/2026
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Papa, Padre, Dad, and Pop are all words for an old man, and each shares its answer with a circled C.
– puzzle by Brad Lively
Wed 6/17/2026
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Each "BEFORE" answer can be split into two equal halves, like two halves of a deck. Interleaving those halves one letter at a time produces the corresponding "AFTER" answer. It's a nice, unexpected twist that GOOF OFFS shuffles back to itself.
– puzzle by Jonathan Raksin
Thu 6/18/2026
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The tallest puzzle on the longest day of the year.
– puzzle by Hannah Slovut-Einertson
Mon 6/22/2026
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In the theme answers, the jump synonyms all mean something other than jump in the base phrase.
– puzzle by Victoria Fernandez Grande
Tue 6/23/2026
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Groups of cirlced letters spell "bent" synonyms for TRUTH.
– puzzle by Kathy Bloomer
Wed 6/24/2026
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Shaded letters INSIDE across answers need to be TRADED around to match clues.
– puzzle by Tarun Krishnamurthy
Fri 6/26/2026
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Sat 6/27/2026
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Sun 6/28/2026 Down in the Valley
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Be LIKE a Valley Girl, and add "like" to phrases that match the clues. As if!
– puzzle by Rebecca Goldstein and Christina Iverson