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For years, crosswords have been a popular pastime, stretching brains and broadening vocabularies. The happy click of a pen against paper has for years been a sign of victory over a vexing clue. But in today's digital era, the old-fashioned crossword is not ...

Abigail Martin opens our solving weekend with her New York Times Crossword debut. By Deb Amlen Jump to: Tricky Clues FRIDAY PUZZLE — Here’s the problem, at least for me, with puzzles that contain multiple food entries: I am highly susceptible to ...

The book, which is subtitled ‘The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle,’ looks at the joy and challenges of this successful game.

In August, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani hosted a citywide scavenger hunt, inviting voters to scour the boroughs in search of historic political sites. (Grand prize: a bag of chips.) Clues for it were written by veteran puzzle maker Natan ...

On a chilly January night in 1924, fledgling publisher Richard Simon was having dinner with his Aunt Wixie when she asked if he knew where she could buy a book of crossword puzzles. None existed. At the time, the crossword was little more than a decade old ...