Last week I wrote about my adrenaline-fueled experience at Crossword Con on Friday, April 4. After discussing today’s puzzle, ...

Presentation is one of the themes of today's Connections puzzle, making it hard to visualize how certain words are shown ...

Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our ...

Sarah Sinclair and Rafael Musa’s collaboration unfolds excitingly.

Today’s blog post will be a short recap of the theme of the April 20 puzzle, followed by Part 1 of my big crossword weekend ...

The New York Times’ Strands puzzle for April 12 challenges players to uncover themed words hidden in a letter grid — with a twist. Unlike traditional word searches, Strands allows words to ...

HERE'S MY TWO CENTS (5D: "If you ask me...") This is a great vertical grid spanner that crosses through all three of the horizontal theme answers. It occurs to me that "HERE'S MY TWO CENTS" could ...

Janelle MONAE played the role of aerospace engineer, Mary Jackson, in the movie. I enjoyed this puzzle, even though I now have "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS" – the 1977 song by Queen – stuck in my head!

HAS THE FINAL SAY: The FINAL word of each theme answer can be paired with the ... Thank you, Bill, for this excellent puzzle.

Each theme answer begins with a homophone of the word "Whee!": OUI, WE, WII. Whee! This puzzle not only SOUNDS LIKE FUN, it is FUN. I enjoyed the nice "Aha!" moment when I noticed that OUI ...