Paolo Pasco, a games editor at TED, won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 2024 and 2025. He is the author of “Crossword Puzzles for Kids.” ...
They’re not easy, but the brain-bending puzzles are a celebration of “the hidden magic within language”. Not to mention ...
Richard Silvestri delivers a doozy of a challenge. By Caitlin Lovinger CRYPTIC CROSSWORD — This is not a puzzle to zip through unless you’re an absolute whiz at cryptics. I mulled it over for a couple ...
Tensions mount, uncertainty looms, words take on a rather threatening aspect. HT Puzzles' Kabir Firaque writes on being stuck ...
Welcome to Fifteen Minutes first-ever (to my knowledge) cryptic crossword. Cryptics are the trickier and weirder British cousin of normal crosswords. Whereas a normal crossword’s clues only have a ...
Crosswords, inexplicably, are more popular than ever. The New York Times alone apparently has more than 28 million people playing its word games. (Speaking of which, have you tried Slate’s?) Something ...
Today’s theme: 2025 in poetry.
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