Published in the print edition of the July 28, 1997, issue, with the headline “The Cryptic Crossword: No. 8.” Trip Payne is a senior editor of the app Crosswords with Friends. His first ...

Published in the print edition of the August 16, 1999, issue, with the headline “The Cryptic Crossword: No. 100.” Trip Payne is a senior editor of the app Crosswords with Friends. His first ...

Puzzle Mania is an annual special puzzle section in the print edition of the Sunday paper. It includes Sudoku, a Cryptic ...

The important difference between standard American crosswords and "cryptic" crosswords is that the clues in the latter have two distinct parts. One part is a normal definition of the answer ...

Nancy Sibtain’s 35-year cryptic crossword-creating career started from having a bee in her bonnet. The avid fan and daily practitioner of the sophisticated puzzles found herself critiquing them.

Arthur Wynne, the son of the editor of the local Liverpool Mercury, had emigrated to America aged 19 and by 1913 was editing ...

The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword ...

You can now play a range of puzzles on our site, from sudoku to crosswords, every weekday. The puzzles will update every weekday at midnight so make sure you bookmark the links to play.

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

Magazine Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Tuesday, October 29, she sent a cryptic-chic fashion message in a JW Anderson dress covered with bold-lettered text.