Are you a music lover? A pop culture savant? A puzzle-solving pro? Then get ready to say “game on” to the new Billboard Daily Crossword, launching today (Oct. 3) on Billboard.com.
Every Monday through Friday starting now, Billboard will roll out a 10×10 crossword puzzle on Billboard.com — and it’s completely, 100% free. So if you’re looking to relax, test your pop culture knowledge or just show off to your friends how fast you can solve each one, head here.
In honor of today’s other big launch – the release of Taylor Swift’s hotly anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl – the first Billboard Daily Crossword puzzle is themed around the 12-time (so far) Billboard Hot 100-topping singer-songwriter. You don’t need to be a Swiftie to solve it — not all of the clues are about the 14-time Grammy winner – but it might help. Are you ready for it?
And why stop there? The Taylor Swift-themed crossword puzzle fun will continue all next week, Oct. 6-10. After that, you’ll just have to keep coming back to see what artist, song, lyric, trend or theme unites each crossword.
The Billboard Daily Crossword puzzle is powered by PuzzleMe™, created by an experienced team of crossword puzzle-making pros with oversight from the trivia hounds on Billboard’s staff.
Swifties can also check out Billboard’s ranking of all 12 tracks on The Life of a Showgirl and Jason Lipshutz’s critic’s take on the album, which he says is full of “pop anthems with humor, empathy, a little fury and a lot of wisdom.”
