Clues, to be specific, in The New Yorker’s thrice-weekly crossword puzzle. The magazine launched its first-ever Puzzles & Games Dept. at the end of 2019 and has rolled out a number of digital goodies ...

In April, while many of us were adjusting to life under quarantine, The New Yorker Crossword adopted a new feature: Partner Mode, a way to solve puzzles with far-off friends and loved ones.Among ...

From the December 16, 2024, edition of The New Yorker newsletter: Anthony Lane on the secret history of risotto. Plus: introducing the Cartoons & Puzzles Issue; the year in brain rot; and the ...

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 ...

Knight’s conclusions bear out across the industry. Liz Maynes-Aminzade, the puzzles and games editor at The New Yorker, said that “subscribers who play the crossword or quiz every day are more likely ...

In this video, Liz Maynes-Aminzade, an editor of The New Yorker’s crossword puzzles, talks with one of my very favorite crossword constructors, Natan Last, about how he approaches the grid.

“There are crossword puzzles and crossword puzzles,” Stephen Sondheim wrote in 1968, by way of an introduction to the British-style cryptic puzzle he briefly constructed for New York magazine ...