@pacogoatboy you are totally right and all the people downvoting you have clearly never seen a good implementation of this style of puzzle. The focus should be on the puzzle itself. Setting a hard time limit as well as immediately penalizing (and therefore alerting the player to) a wrongly filled square greatly detracts from that focus.
When the failure to download the daily puzzle happens every first of the month, there is something going on that should be fixable, and no, clearing my browser's cache is not an acceptable solution.
I'll figure it our thanks for the comment : )