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.
There seem to be three major elements of a crossword that can be stylistic: grid shape or layout, difficulty level, and the ‘voice’ of a puzzle. Voice, in turn, is a matter of both clue and answer writing. (Peter Gordon’s fabulously lengthy clues, often too long to be published i...
With this post (No. 413), we mark the tenth anniversary ofThe New Yorker.Since I beganA New Yorker State of Mindin March 2015, I’ve attempted to give you at least a sense of what the magazine was like in those first years, as well as the historical events that often informed its ...
that neighbors couldn’t be trusted to not steal it before I could grab it from just inside the gate, even though I’m up at 5 a.m.), but we still solve theNew Yorkercrossword in the print magazine. So it was with no small measure of joy that I found the following Retro 1951 ...
When your hands are full, listen to featured stories read by world-class narrators. If you need a break, solve a crossword puzzle or Name Drop quiz, and flip through a nearly endless supply of cartoons. And, when you’re on the go, save stories to access them on any device, even ...
In the 1920s and 30s, newspapers warned of “crossword puzzleitis”, an “epidemic” they claimed was draining America’s brainpower and distracting women from their household duties. But by the 1940s, the New York Times, which had resisted ...
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But in an interview with The New Yorker's Richard Brody, Scorsese revealed several reasons why this approach wouldn't work for the story he wanted to tell. For one, the identities of the murderers would be far too obvious. "[The FBI agents] come in from Washington, and the moment ...
"But after graduating from Harvard, the 'Boy Wonder' pursued his own obscure and seemingly meaningless interests. The press that had lionized him turned on him. The most scathing example came in the New Yorker in 1937. Entitled 'April Fool,' the magazine article ridiculed everything from Sidis...
Johnson. 'Finding this was no big deal, it’s like a crossword puzzle — you just got to start putting the pieces together,' Tague told TimesDispatch.com. 'Kennedy’s assassination was not a conspiracy, it was a coup.'” Score: Lone-nuts 70, Conspiracy Theorists 26. November 21: ...