crossword

The magazine recently started printing a crossword puzzle in each issue.
For crossword constructors, an inclusivity debate: What’s ‘common knowledge’ and who decides?|Hau Chu|March 11, 2021|Washington Post
A crossword reflects life as it is lived and understood in certain contexts — what you’re eating, reading, hearing, watching and seeing in the world.
For crossword constructors, an inclusivity debate: What’s ‘common knowledge’ and who decides?|Hau Chu|March 11, 2021|Washington Post
Husic, a 29-year-old postdoctoral researcher in biophysics, leaped into crossword construction in 2019 with little puzzle experience beyond academic curiosity and an active Twitter account.
For crossword constructors, an inclusivity debate: What’s ‘common knowledge’ and who decides?|Hau Chu|March 11, 2021|Washington Post
It’s an elegant bit of symmetry that crossword solvers often refer to the first answer they’re able to enter into a puzzle as a “toehold.”
What Climbing and Crosswords Have in Common|Ross Trudeau|January 27, 2021|Outside Online

I started constructing crosswords in earnest the same year, 2016, that I joined the climbing gym, and the two obsessions flourished together.
What Climbing and Crosswords Have in Common|Ross Trudeau|January 27, 2021|Outside Online
She struggled to concentrate on crossword puzzles and read books, so she just watched television.
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush|Sujay Kumar|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She cooked, wrote a book about a cat who danced, and crafted crossword puzzles.
The Tragic Downfall of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Ballet’s Greatest Muse|Nancy Buirski|February 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All the time I was supposed to be doing the job I was supposed to do,” he remembers, “I was making crossword puzzles instead.
The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100: The ‘King of Crossword’ on Its Strange History|Kevin Fallon|December 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Merl Reagle, otherwise known as “King of the Crossword,” knows exactly how you feel.
The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100: The ‘King of Crossword’ on Its Strange History|Kevin Fallon|December 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I have memories of every single crossword puzzle I completed.
The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100: The ‘King of Crossword’ on Its Strange History|Kevin Fallon|December 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Automatic pencil poised, he was scanning the crossword puzzle intently.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various

QUIZZES