New Delhi, June 14 -- The New York Times Spelling Bee for Sunday, June 14, 2026, opens the weekend's final morning with a hive that is compact in size and generous in structure. Seven letters - H, A, D, E, I, N, and P - are arranged in the familiar hexagonal honeycomb on the Times Games platform, with H locked in as the mandatory center. Every accepted word must carry it. That single constraint does more to shape Sunday's puzzle than anything else on the board.

Twenty-six answers. Three pangrams. A Queen Bee ceiling of 158 points. A perfect pangram among the shortest, and a 10-letter crown word waiting at the top for anyone patient enough to find it.

This is not a sprawling puzzle. It is a precise one, and precision is its own kind of d...