Naomi Forster — Senior Editor

Naomi Forster is the Senior Editor of Daily Themed Crossword Answers and the person behind every verified answer in the database. Since the Daily Themed Crossword launched on iOS and Android in October 2017, Naomi has solved every main puzzle and every daily mini crossword on the day of release, confirming each clue answer in the PlaySimple Games app before it is published here.

What She Does

Naomi's daily routine involves opening the Daily Themed Crossword app as soon as each puzzle is released, solving it completely without assistance, and then publishing the full verified answer list here. She notes the puzzle's theme, flags any unusual clue constructions, and tags answers that have appeared in multiple puzzles — all of which feeds into the 142,688-pair searchable database.

Beyond the main puzzle, Naomi covers the Daily Themed Mini Crossword (released alongside the main puzzle each day), themed Pack puzzles (collections of 20-30 levels added periodically), and the full puzzle archive going back to October 2017. Historical puzzles have been cross-referenced against original puzzle records to confirm accuracy.

Background

Naomi's background is in linguistics and editorial work, which directly informs how she approaches crossword annotation. She is particularly interested in how PlaySimple constructs themed puzzles — the way the longest fill answers carry the theme, and how crossing short answers are designed to provide just enough support without giving away the theme answers too easily. This structural awareness makes her annotations more useful than a plain answer list: she often explains why an unexpected answer is correct once you understand the clue construction.

She has been a daily crossword solver since university and approaches each puzzle as both a player and an editor — trying to finish it cleanly before checking any reference, and only then reviewing for potential errors or ambiguities worth flagging to readers.

About the Site

Daily Themed Crossword Answers is an independent fan site with no affiliation to PlaySimple Games. It exists because no complete, searchable archive of Daily Themed Crossword answers existed when Naomi started solving in 2017. The goal was simple: every puzzle, every clue, every answer, searchable, free. That archive now spans over 3,100 puzzles.

You can contact Naomi directly via the Contact page to report an incorrect answer or request a missing puzzle date.