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A satisfying puzzle break: What’s a four-letter word for “Those who often hear a siren song”? Treat your brain to some delightful wordplay in today’s crossword.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Nevertheless, clouds still hang over how England solve this puzzle after another failure - and the pressure is on Tuchel to come up with the answers.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Shanghai was more than a challenge to communism, it was a puzzle for Chinese nationalists because its unique strength—its economic power—was born directly from China’s weakness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The researchers describe phosphate as a previously "invisible" part of the climate puzzle.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

At the top of each page, in Pops’s neat block script, is the title of each puzzle.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Or, if you prefer your puzzles bite-sized, try today’s mini.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026

This featured noise-cancelling headphones, fidget toys, weighted blankets and quiet activities such as colouring and puzzles.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

How AI fits into those aging rules puzzles commanders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

It ties together some of the deepest puzzles in physics, from the information paradox to dark matter and dark energy, from cosmic cycles to the arrow of time.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

“Siobhan was one of the smartest girls I ever knew, though she never rubbed it in your face like other people. She loved puzzles, especially ones involving math.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

The results offer a new explanation for a question that has puzzled vision researchers for decades.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

“The Ground Above” is an album with a discernible arc, as Ms. Orton moves from puzzled contemplation and reflection to something like acceptance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

I was puzzled and at that moment I certainly never thought that what we had just seen would become one of the most talked about events in sporting history.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

While both were doctoral students in Canada, Mann and Pardo puzzled over it for years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

“Oh yes, sorry,” Gingersnipes said, still quite puzzled.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

One of the systems, G 203-47, was especially puzzling.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

But as more analysts bang the drum, this puzzling quantum play might finally start making sense.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

A competing interpretation has emerged of the preliminary report's most puzzling detail: the brief movement of both fuel-control switches to "cutoff" shortly after take-off.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

U.S. authorities deny any part in the puzzling series of events, which involved a pair of 35-ton fishing craft — not the sleek speedboats typically pictured in Department of Defense videos of maritime strikes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

In 1913, while puzzling over the structure of the atom, Bohr had an idea so exciting that he postponed his honeymoon to write what became a landmark paper.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson