The New Yorker has added online co-op to its online crossword puzzles, and it’s actually a really great way to solve a puzzle with a partner. You just send a link to the puzzle to a friend and you can solve the puzzle together.
Answer: “Bro”. When Anna Shechtman, a cruciverbalist (crossword constructor), introduced this clue to the New York Times crossword puzzle in 2014, readers took notice. “Bro” was traditionally clued as “sibling for sis”. Ms Shechtman w...
References & Further Reading Bethea, C. "The Mystery of the Headless Goats in the Chattahoochee."The New Yorker.Condé Nast, 29 Sep. 2022. Web. 17 Jan. 2024. <https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-mystery-of-the-headless-goats-in-the-chattahoochee> Clark, M. "Sante...
Crossword cheaters of the world unite. I began playing the New York Times crossword in the app some time during 2016, when, as a new New Yorker, I figured out that it was a good way to distract me from the stench and misery of my subway commute. Access to all the Times puzzles al...
The clue to her approach can be found in two of the writers quoted on the back of the book’s dust jacket: Stanley Elkin and Donald Barthelme. Elkin, Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut were the most critically and popularly successful American fabulists of the 1970s. For Barthelme in particularly...
(1)ARISTOTLE!In 2017The New Yorkerconsidered“Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them”Aristotle isn’t the only one who had an opinion. Consider the yeti. Reputed to live in the mountainous regions of Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal. Also known by the alias Abominable Snowman. Overgrown, in both...
“No, Sir William. There was a new kind recommended to me and I thought you might like to try it.” “What colour is it?” “I think it’s …” “You think! Don’t you know?” “Yes, Sir William. It’s red.” “Red!” Sir William drops his voice to pronounce the word as...
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Buddy leaves the North Pole, which looks like a Rankin-Bass stop-motion special come to life, to seek out his New Yorker father (James Caan), who’s very much on Santa’s naughty list.The result is a fish out of water comedy that sparkles like tinsel. It’s quotable like the best ...