Crossclimb answer for Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Today's ladder has 7 rungs, each a 4-letter word.

The clues for today's five middle rungs are: (1) Answer that can be formed from homophones of "Won", "Too", "Ate", and "For" in order (2) George Orwell novel that includes the concepts of Big Brother, Newspeak, and "2 + 2 = 5" (3) Year that Seoul, South Korea hosted the Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad); the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad will be in Los Angeles in 2028. (4) When England had its "Glorious Revolution" (hint: the first two digits are 2^4, and the remaining two digits are each 2^3) (5) 7 × 800 + 8 × 11

The top and bottom rungs of the ladder share one bookend clue describing how the two words relate to each other, even though the ladder itself climbs word-by-word from top to bottom.

Crossclimb is a word ladder: each rung changes exactly one letter from the rung above it while staying the same length, so the whole climb reads as one continuous chain of near-identical words.

No. You can guess the five middle rungs from their clues in any order, but the real game only accepts the ladder once you arrange all seven words into their correct climbing sequence.

Solve the five middle rungs first. Once the one-letter chain is filled in, the relationship between the top and bottom bookend words is usually much easier to spot.