Reason for a workplace accommodation, maybe: ten letters.

Once the theme clicks, the puzzle’s title does, too, and it’s lovely: “Second in Command” is a perfect description of what ...

24A. [Anabolic steroids, e.g., informally] are known as P.E.D.S, short for “performance-enhancing drugs” and pronounced as an ...

Blake Slonecker first tried to build a crossword puzzle after several years of solving them. It was harder than he expected. “It took me two weeks (and) many hours during those two weeks. I was an ...

Up for a challenge? Take a stab at completing the first crossword puzzle ever published. Tatiana Ayazo/Rd.com, Puzzle Courtesy Sik Cambon Jensen December 21 is a significant day for several reasons—it ...

For crossword puzzle fanatics, few publications are more necessary than The New York Times. Its puzzles increase in difficulty from Monday through Saturday, and the big Sunday puzzle, which almost ...

Despite this fortuitous bit of lexical crisscrossing, Mr. Madison was having trouble figuring out how to properly incorporate all four words into the puzzle—themed, as you may have guessed, around The ...

A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism. Natan Last This essay is drawn from Natan Last’s forthcoming book Across the ...

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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, ...