Thomas Joseph Crossword Answers Today

Full Thomas Joseph Crossword answer list for today

Every clue from today's grid next to its solution — the same answers as the board above, in one plain list you can scan without tapping.

Today's Thomas Joseph Crossword answers

The current solution appears above, laid out clue by clue — every Across answer followed by every Down answer, in the order the grid numbers them. A Thomas Joseph puzzle is only 11 squares across and 13 down, so the whole answer key fits on one screen: rather than reading it end to end, scan to the entry that stopped you and leave the rest of your grid alone. A new puzzle publishes every day except Sunday, and this page updates as soon as King Features releases it.

What is the Thomas Joseph Crossword?

The Thomas Joseph Crossword is King Features Syndicate's compact daily puzzle. It runs Monday through Saturday — there is no Sunday edition — in newspapers that carry King Features, and it's free to play online at games.washingtonpost.com and arkadium.com, with no subscription. The grid is an unusual 11×13 — taller than it is wide, sized to drop into a single newspaper column — and carries about 50 clues, a third fewer than a standard 15×15 daily. Puzzles are untitled and unthemed: it's a straight vocabulary crossword rather than a wordplay showcase.

Who is Thomas Joseph?

Nobody — and that surprises a lot of solvers. “Thomas Joseph” is a King Features pen name stitched together from two first names: Joseph LaFauci, the Boston constructor who wrote the syndicate's daily 11×13 crossword from the 1970s onward, and Thomas Sheehan, his editor. LaFauci made his living building crosswords for more than thirty years, published in the New York Times some seventy times between the 1950s and 1970s, and at its peak his King Features puzzle ran in close to 400 newspapers. He worked without a dictionary, starting at 1-Across and 1-Down and building outward. LaFauci died in 1997, but King Features kept the byline, and the puzzle still follows the plain-spoken house style he set.

How the Thomas Joseph Crossword compares

It's the smallest of the classic newspaper dailies, and the closest comparison is its King Features stablemate:

Want more from the same syndicate? The Eugene Sheffer Crossword is the slightly larger daily, and the Premier Crossword is the Sunday-size one.

Tips for solving the Thomas Joseph Crossword

• Don't wait for a theme. There isn't one. Every clue stands on its own, so there's no long entry to crack that unlocks the rest — just work the crossings.
• Start with the down answers. The grid is taller than it is wide, so the downs run longer than the acrosses and give you more letters per entry solved.
• Think older, not newer. The fill leans classic — mid-century film, standards, and geography turn up far more often than current pop culture.
• The day of the week means nothing. Unlike the NYT, there's no difficulty ramp here. A Saturday grid is pitched exactly like a Monday one, so a hard clue is just a hard clue.
• Use the solver for one entry. Our crossword solver reveals a single clue's answer from the letters you already have, without spoiling the rest of the grid.

Browse past Thomas Joseph Crossword answers

Every day we've covered is archived on this page by date, with full across and down solutions — useful for a puzzle you set aside or a back issue you picked up late. There's no Sunday edition, so the archive steps from Saturday straight to Monday, and it updates automatically as each new grid is syndicated. Stuck on a single clue, our crossword solver will reveal just that answer.