Lance Enfinger and John Kugelman’s puzzle will transform you.

Every month, The New York Times publishes a bonus crossword puzzle for subscribers. The puzzles are designed to have the difficulty of an early-week puzzle and to use the theme throughout. The theme ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Think you know your Friends quotes? If you answered yes, and you're a fan of crossword puzzles, ...

OK, it's time to play a different kind of puzzle. JULIANA PACHE: Four letters, rude seasoning. RASCOE: OK, rude - the first thing I thought of was Lawry's, but that's not rude. I guess jerk. Is it ...

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.) ...

The Marlow Murder Club’s Judith Potts isn’t the first literary sleuth to enjoy a good word puzzle—Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse and Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey had a penchant for crosswords, ...

Most crossword puzzle fans have experienced that moment where, after a period of struggle on a particularly difficult puzzle, everything suddenly starts to come together, and they are able to fill in ...

At just 16, Natan Last had a crossword puzzle accepted by the New York Times; at the time he was the youngest person ever to construct a puzzle that ran in the Times magazine. Now 35, Last reflects on ...

Over the past few weeks, hundreds of you have shared opinions about the daily crossword puzzle. A retirement of a crossword puzzle editor at the beginning of the year didn’t go unnoticed. The new ...

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 ...