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FAQs

Is there a crossword puzzle in the Sunday LA Times? ›

One of the most entertaining puzzles around, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle offers a broad range of vocabulary and cultural clues, along with a sprinkling of humor and wordplay.

Perhaps the most famous is the November 5, 1996, puzzle by Jeremiah Farrell, published on the day of the U.S. presidential election, which has been featured in the movie Wordplay and the book The Crossword Obsession by Coral Amende, as well as discussed by Peter Jennings on ABC News, featured on CNN, and elsewhere.

William F. Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword editor for The New York Times. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in the invented field of enigmatology.

A cross-figure or crossnumber is the numerical analogy of a crossword, in which the solutions to the clues are numbers instead of words.

The Saturday crossword is actually the hardest puzzle of the week. Mondays have the most straightforward clues and Saturday clues are the hardest, or involve the most wordplay. Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday puzzles are midweek difficulty, not the hardest.

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In a world filled with puzzles, games, and challenges, one specific puzzle stands out as an unrivaled contender - “The Rubik's Cube”.

The largest ever published crossword had 66,666 clues in total (33,018 across, 33,648 down) and was created by Japanese company Nikoli. However, when it comes to unpublished crosswords, Bulgarian Hristo A. Yonitsov spent 14 years creating a crossword with 93,769 clues, using more than 1000 sheets of paper.

noun. cru·​ci·​ver·​bal·​ist. ˌkrüsəˈvərbələ̇st. : a person skillful in creating or solving crossword puzzles.

Is there a trick to crossword puzzles? ›

Check intersecting words when you guess an answer.

If you're not positive about a word but have an idea for what an answer might be, write it in the grid lightly in pencil. Check the clues surrounding the word to see if there are any answers that fit with those letters.

It was invented by British journalist Arthur Wynne, who emigrated to the United States in the 1890's. His first crossword, or 'Word-Cross' as he called it, did not look like the present ones – it was diamond shaped with no black squares. During the early 1920s other newspapers picked up on the pastime.

Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

However, many times the blank space can be filled in with two or more words. In easier crosswords, multiple words will be indicated with (2 words) or (2 wds.), but more often than not it will be up to the solver to determine how many words fill in the space.

The largest published crossword has 66,666 clues in total with 33,018 clues across and 33,648 clues down, created by Nikoli Co., Ltd. (Japan) in Taito, Tokyo, Japan, and published on 30 June 2016. The crossword consists of 244,971 squares and measures 12.042 m² (129.61 ft²).

Times Mind Games brings together the very best puzzles from the pages of The Times: Cryptic and General Knowledge Crosswords, Jumbo Crosswords, Codewords, all levels of Su Doku and mixed number puzzles and word-based games and quizzes.

With over 14,000 entrants per week, The Mail on Sunday Prize Crossword is the paper's most popular puzzle and a favourite of all puzzle fans.

The Washington Post

The Washington Post publishes two types of crosswords: the daily Mini Meta puzzle by Frank Longo, and the Sunday crossword by Evan Birnholz. Each mini crossword from Monday to Friday must be solved in order to get one word of a five-word clue.