Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than two years later, after adding an extra weekend edition, the gamification of The New Yorker proved so successful that the ...

The act of throwing money around to resolve an issue? COIN TOSS. One with four legs and many hands? CARD TABLE. Drop just a drop? MICRODOSE. What these have in common? CROSSWORD CLUES. The crossword ...

The New Yorker published its first issue in 1925, amid what the writer Adrienne Raphel has described as a nationwide “ crossword craze.” But more than seventy years passed before the magazine ...

Print readers of The New Yorker got bonus value in the Feb. 15 magazine issue, out today. Now, the pub’s crossword puzzle will appear at the back of every issue, where the cartoon caption contest ...

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New York Magazine today announced that it’s expanding its print and digital crossword offerings. New York’s flagship 21x21 puzzle by Matt Gaffney, which has run on alternate Sundays online and in each ...

It was always astonishing to me as a newspaper editor how much readers cared about their puzzles. Make a mistake, leave them out of the paper for a day, and the telephone wouldn’t stop ringing. Have a ...