Poetic Evening Daily Themed Crossword (2024)

FAQs

What is the hardest day for the NYT crossword? ›

The Saturday crossword is actually the hardest puzzle of the week. Mondays have the most straightforward clues and Saturday clues are the hardest, or involve the most wordplay. Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday puzzles are midweek difficulty, not the hardest. They're just bigger.

Stars track how quickly you've solved a puzzle. The faster you solve, the more stars you earn. Themed Puzzles: Solve a puzzle correctly = 1 star.

Matching Answer. FIERCE.

At an average finish time of nine minutes and twenty-four seconds over those 2,192 puzzles, that's roughly 20,589 minutes or 343 hours or 14.3 full days spent doing crossword puzzles, time enough to walk between a capital city founded in 1050 (OSLO) and a WWI battle locale (YSER).

In case you didn't know, the daily New York Times Crossword has a difficulty curve as the week goes on. Monday is the easiest puzzle, and then Tuesday is a little harder, climbing up to Saturday, which is the hardest day of the week.

Matching Answer. ASP.

TV-MA. This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17.

aggressive, ambitious, competing, cutthroat, vying.

Matching Answer. VALE. ADIEU.

What is the old word for over there? ›

Yonder is an old-fashioned way to say, "Over there." When your sister asks where you parked the car, you might jokingly reply, "Yonder, by the fire hydrant."

The most beautiful creature I adore forever. Letting go is something I hope for never. Light of the moon bathes you in warmth as you radiate within me. The journey to my heart is through you and no one else.

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty.

Our difficulty scale increases through the week, with the easiest puzzles on Monday and hardest on Saturday. Sunday puzzles should reflect midweek difficulty levels.

If you subscribe, you get access to all the daily puzzles and the archive. The Monday crosswords are the easiest, and the puzzles get harder as the week goes on.

About LA Times Crossword

Edited by Patti Varol, the LA Times Crossword puzzle is full of music, TV, and film references. This typically themeless crossword puzzle gets harder as the week goes on.