Richard Silvestri comes in hot with a difficult puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger CRYPTIC CROSSWORD — This is Richard Silvestri’s 50th cryptic crossword for The New York Times, and I hope you’re ...

The New York Times looks for intelligent, literate, entertaining and well-crafted crosswords that appeal to the broad range of Times solvers. Submissions are now open on our new submission ...

SATURDAY PUZZLE — This is the first New York Times Crossword collaboration between Adrian Johnson and Rafael Musa, whom I had just been thinking about because the New York City Pride March is on ...

We’re all working hard to deal with the New World Reality of 2022, so words like ... Historically many New York Times crossword puzzles have not always reflected a broad range of cultural ...

“Light” has appeared in New York Times Crosswords 22 times since 1993, according to XWordInfo.com, an online database of New York Times Crossword puzzles. On April 18, 2006, a Tuesday, the ...

Wyna Liu, a New York Times Crossword editor, examines a nontraditional puzzle. By Wyna Liu Welcome to The Lab, a series that examines nontraditional puzzles that push boundaries. The web version ...

Solving a New York Times crossword is not easy, but it should be satisfying. Even if you only get a few answers the first few times, keep on solving. It just gets easier – and better – from there.

According to xwordinfo.com, ERIE is the third most popular word in the New York Times Crossword. It has appeared over 1,350 times. ORE is seventh, with over 1,200 appearances.

Any puzzle maker will tell you that building a crossword is no easy task. (If you need proof, we’ve previously followed a group of New York Times crossword constructors as they make one ...

Solving a New York Times crossword is not easy, but it should be satisfying. Even if you only get a few answers the first few times, keep on solving. It just gets easier — and better — from there.

Crossword puzzles are hard, and that’s part of the adventure, but you should make sure you’re having fun first. Try out some Thursdays for a while and see how you do. When you’re ready to ...