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NYT Mini Crossword is available on both the web and the New York Times app, the Mini is free-to-play, though tackling the ...

I might be alone in this, but I wasn’t familiar enough with the puzzle’s title, “Multi-Hyphenates,” to appreciate its place ...

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The New York Times Mini Crossword introduces festive words this holiday season. Daily clues include Christmas-related hints.

Crossword puzzles heavily influence culture and the construction of these puzzles deserves more scrutiny.

An annual tradition in Cleveland is The Plain Dealer’s holiday crossword puzzle, which fills an entire newspaper page plus ...

This themeless grid’s title, “Go With the Flow,” was auspicious for my solve, at least. I hardly jumped around at all as I worked in a clockwise spiral from the first clue, feeling as if I was being ...

Newspaper editor Arthur Wynne created the modern-day crossword puzzle in 1913. They caught on during World War I and continue ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as ...

SUN (42A: It's up at the crack of dawn) DAYDREAMING (3D: Distracted during a boring class, maybe) WIN AT LIFE (34D: Be successful and satisfied in every way) YOU SEE... as soon as I read the title ...