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  1. Feb 14, 2017 · 75 Years of Crosswords. FEB. 14, 2017. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a New York Times editor made the decision to run a crossword puzzle in the paper to offer relief to its war-weary readers ...

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  2. The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games.

  3. 3 days ago · The most difficult puzzle is published on Sunday. Apart from Sundays when the crossword can be as big as 21 x 21 squares- or sometimes 25 x 25 squares- other crosswords usually measures 15 × 15 squares. Sunday’s puzzles come in two levels (easy and difficult) so you are never short of choices regardless of your level of expertise.

  4. 4 days ago · The New York Times Crossword has an open submission system, and you can submit your puzzles online. For tips on how to get started, read our series “ How to Make a Crossword Puzzle .” Whiffed It?

  5. Dec 6, 2018 · When crossword puzzles first came about in the 1920s, the NYT turned up its nose at them. In 1924, the paper ran an opinion column that dubbed them “ a primitive sort of mental exercise.” (Here, we’re inferring they meant primitive as in “simple; unsophisticated”—Dictionary.com’s ninth entry for the adjective) and a “sinful ...

  6. Crosswords caught on in the first half of the 20th century, but the New York Times, whose puzzle is now famous, didn't publish a crossword until 1942. Illustration by Adam Simpson

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  8. Feb 14, 2017 · An editorial in The New York Times calls crossword puzzles “a primitive sort of mental exercise” and a “sinful waste” of time. The New York Times Feb. 15, 1942