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FAQs

What day is the hardest crossword day? ›

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty.

Crossword Puzzle Day on December 21st commemorates the birth of a challenging word game enjoyed by millions worldwide.

Puzzle Availability

Each daily crossword puzzle is available for Games and All Access subscribers the evening before it appears in the print edition. Tuesday - Saturday puzzles are available at 10 p.m. EST the previous day.

The puzzles featured in TV Guide and the standalone magazine featured answers related to television programs, films, actors, entertainment history and other entertainment-related trivia. In addition to the regular magazine, TV Guide Crosswords also published special editions as well as books.

The Times Crossword is the world's most famous crossword.

These features mean that crossword puzzles cause large areas of your cortex to be active, and stimulate new connections in your brain. The hippocampus will then remember those new connections, strengthening both your hippocampus and cortex.

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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).

Top choice, informally

The answer is fave.

What does an asterisk mean in crosswords? ›

Sometimes the clues for the theme entries will be indicated visually, such as with an asterisk. Other times there will be an entry or entries in the grid which will reveal the theme. Another way constructors indicate the theme is through the title of the Puzzle.

What is a Rebus in a Crossword Puzzle? According to The New York Times crosswords editor, Will Shortz, “A 'rebus' in a crossword is anything that gets entered in a square that's not a single letter of the alphabet.” That can mean you have to jam more than one letter into a square or use digits.

Rebus Answers

The occasional puzzle (usually on Thursday or Sunday) will require you to enter multiple letters into a single square, which is called a rebus.

The most famous Schrödinger puzzle, and maybe the most famous crossword puzzle in American history, was published on the morning of Election Day in 1996. The clue for the two central entries read “Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!).” A bold clue indeed!

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.

Our difficulty scale increases through the week, with the easiest puzzles on Monday and hardest on Saturday. Sunday puzzles should reflect midweek difficulty levels. Clues should be fresh, colorful and precise.

One of the most entertaining puzzles around, the Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle offers a broad range of vocabulary and cultural clues, along with a sprinkling of humor and wordplay. In classic puzzle style, this crossword gets more difficult each day.

Honestly, Tuesdays aren't that much harder than Mondays. A big lesson to learn is to make your solving experience your own. Some hard-core puzzlers may consider using autocheck or Google to be cheating, but at the end of the day, you should solve the puzzle in the way that's most comfortable for you.