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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 ...

We want to make our puzzles available to anyone who may be staying inside this weekend. We've split our regular puzzles package into four files for easier printing on your home printer. These are from ...

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 ...