Friday, July 3, 2026 — Happy Fourth Eve! 🎇

Barbara Lin is a highly versatile constructor — she has made crosswords for every day of the week, and this is her second Friday creation. The grid had a daunting amount of white space in it, with 4 grid-spanning answers. Fortunately, the clues went easy on the pop culture references and both cohosts — solving independently as is their wont — were able to get through the puzzle without too many naticks. The clues themselves were excellent. Few could resist 8D, Essayist who wrote "Not many sou...