From beginner-friendly to brutally hard “In a poll, 64% of Americans felt that the New York Times Crossword is ...

TODAY’S TRICKS Clues begin or end with a definition of the answer. The rest is one of these: Anagram Anagram of answer and hint that there’s an anagram ‘Senator arranged crime (7)’ gives TREASON ...

Crosswords, inexplicably, are more popular than ever. The New York Times alone apparently has more than 28 million people playing its word games. (Speaking of which, have you tried Slate’s?) Something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But I would like to take this time to get on a hobbyhorse of mine: More people should be doing cryptic crosswords. For the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Obviously they don’t, but that’s the point: cryptic crossword clues are never as they seem. If ...