Having a ball.

While I didn’t intend this to be as challenging as last month’s “Time Travel” meta, I’ll still give a series of hints before ...

and I had to rely on too many deep-cut names and phrases for comfort — the inevitable result of frantically trying the year prior to start and finish a Sunday-size crossword in a few hours.

Politics and football: Two forms of modern blood sport that I combined into one crossword. Six football-related phrases have ...

So, last week was the Midwest Crossword Tournament. I won’t give any specific spoilers about the puzzles themselves, but my brother Justin and I competed as a team in the pairs division.

Avoiding duplications like that can be the worst game of whack-a-mole that crossword constructors play all the time. As if that wasn’t a big enough hassle, I also made things far more ...

Don’t worry, because I'm here to help you with the answers for today's NYT Mini crossword. The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword.