The New Yorker published its first issue in 1925, amid what the writer Adrienne Raphel has described as a nationwide “crossword craze.” But more than seventy years passed before the magazine ...

The act of throwing money around to resolve an issue? COIN TOSS. One with four legs and many hands? CARD TABLE. Drop just a drop? MICRODOSE. What these have in common? CROSSWORD CLUES. The crossword ...

New York Magazine today announced that it’s expanding its print and digital crossword offerings. New York’s flagship 21x21 puzzle by Matt Gaffney, which has run on alternate Sundays online and in each ...

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Readers asked how the editors write crosswords, focusing on Canadian-made puzzles and if games are good for brain health ...

We've used the names of Snow White's diminutive friends as clues in this crossword. How they are defined is up to you to determine. Here's a tip: If you whistle while you work, solving will go faster.

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PRINT OUT: The word PRINT is found at the OUTside edges of each theme answer: PROVE A POINT, PRIOR COMMITMENT, and PRINCESS CUT. I appreciate that the break in the word PRINT is different in each ...

It was always astonishing to me as a newspaper editor how much readers cared about their puzzles. Make a mistake, leave them out of the paper for a day, and the telephone wouldn’t stop ringing. Have a ...