Word Has It

About Word Has It

Every week, hosts Carrie & Andy, longtime friends who live on opposite coasts, speed through the New York Times (NYT) Sunday Crossword and catch up on life along the way. They haven't missed a single Sunday since they started solving in March 2020, when a big thing happened that you probably remember.

Publisher

Walladora Studios

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jun 2025

Latest episode

1 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Nov 2026

   NYT Crossword "Relatively Speaking" (10.26.26)

   This Sunday's NYT Crossword (by Dylan Schiff and John Kugelman) finds the gang talking about Kuges as an entire sub-genre of puzzles. Topics include Twinkies, Richard Gere, and Nintendo games. Solving for 345 Sundays in a row!

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   NYT Crossword "Tell Me About Yourself" (10.18.26)

   This Sunday's NYT Crossword (by Peter Gorman) finds the gang talking movies, from critically acclaimed documentaries to Halloween classics. Topics include elementary school bling, McDonald's Monopoly missed opportunities, and young salmon. Solving for 344 Sundays in a row!

3. 

   12 Oct 2026

   NYT Crossword "Heart Transplants" (10.11.26)

   This Sunday's NYT Crossword (by Michael Lieberman) finds the gang on a cozy day with Lex in a Costco parking lot. Topics include state lines, claw machines, and vocal fry. Solving for 343 Sundays in a row! Timestamps 00:00 - Weather, rain, and microclimates in Virginia and the Bay Area 01:47 - Rainy-day vibes and Costco parking lot logistics 03:02 - Chuck E. Cheese money machines and Dave & Buster’s nostalgia 05:32 - Why Lex is waiting out the afternoon near Costco 06:26 - Mapping Batesville, Charlottesville, and Albemarle County 07:14 - Crozet, Claudius Crozet, and local school geography 07:39 - Lynchburg’s name, TikTok, and Virginia history 08:34 - Virginia’s state shape, Delaware’s weird borders, and Rhode Island 13:14 - Fall colors, airport grass, and visiting Crozet 15:44 - Starting the crossword with heart transplants and wordplay 18:46 - Caldera, Osiris, and other clue-solving stretches 20:08 - Agita, Melee, and arcane clue construction 23:22 - Pet passports, ink pads, and more crossword fills 25:55 - Echidnas, egg-laying mammals, and Australia 27:42 - Paper cup, paper cut, and appercu 30:14 - Elicit felicity, tally up, and clue pattern recognition 32:29 - Dayton, bun me, and a string of sports and language clues 34:36 - Flop era, Taylor Swift joke, and teen viewing recommendations 36:32 - Whistling, whistle credibility, and parenting power 37:20 - Speech therapy, lisps, and the mechanics of pronunciation 39:22 - Vase versus vase, and the social life of accents 46:36 - Mid Atlantic accent, Troy audition, and dialect coaching 49:35 - Vocal fry, celebrity examples, and learned speech styles 51:38 - Cars losing color, monoculture, and flattening regional identity 52:40 - AI dog videos, media trust, and getting fooled online 55:07 - Rhoticism, lambdacism, and the cruel naming of speech conditions 56:29 - Final crossword cleanup and Lex heading out for gas

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YouTube views

13,708

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

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62

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

0