Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Will Nediger, 18, of London, Ontario. He is a second-year student at the University of Western Ontario. This is his sixth puzzle for The Times.
Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Natan Last, 17, of Brooklyn. He is a first-year student at Brown University. This is his sixth puzzle for The Times.
Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Caleb Madison, 15, of New York City. He is a sophomore at Bard High School in Manhattan. This is his fourth puzzle for The Times.
When this puzzle is done, connect the circled letters in alphabetical order, and then back to the start, to reveal something seen on the 32-Down 4-Down.
Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Lucas Gaviotis Whitestone, 18, of New York City. He is a first-year student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. This is his first puzzle for The Times.
Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Patrick John Duggan, 19, of Arlington, Va. He is a second-year student at Boston University. This is his second puzzle for The Times.
Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Oliver Hill, 18, of Pleasantville, N.Y. He is a first-year student at Yale University. This is his fifth puzzle for The Times.
Notepad: The
print version of this crossword has a dotted line around the outside of the grid.
Notepad: When this puzzle is done, unscramble the five circled letters to find out how the circles could have been left with the puzzle's solution still being correct.
Notepad: When this puzzle is finished, the 11 circled letters in reading order will spell the subject of the quote starting at 20-Across.
Notepad: The eight two-letter answers in this puzzle are all state postal abbreviations, representing (in some order) the Beaver State, Beehive State, Big Sky Country, Heart of Dixie, Pine Tree State, Show Me State, Sunflower State and Volunteer State.
Notepad: When this puzzle is done, the seven circles will contain the letters from A to G. Starting with A, connect them alphabetically with one continuous line, and you'll get an image of a 39-Across.
Notepad: 17- and 64-Across and 11- and 34-Down each conceals an article of clothing.
Notepad: When the puzzle is done, the letters in the following squares spell a bonus phrase: 7A - 3rd letter, 31A - 5th, 65A - 4th, 104A - 6th, 136A - 3rd, 151A - 1st, 149A - 4th, 133A - 4th, 100A - 1st, 62A - 1st, 29A - 6th
Notepad: The circled letters in the answers to the seven starred clues, reading left to right or top to bottom, spell words that can complete familiar phrases that start with "break."
Notepad: Bonus puzzle: When this crossword has been completed, try to find the word ELF hidden in the grid 20 times, word search-style -- horizontally, vertically and diagonally in any direction.
Notepad: The answers at 17- and 51-Across and 11- and 24-Down can all be defined by the same missing three-letter word. What is it?
Notepad: DIAGONAL
What you might do eventually to make up for lost time
Notepad: The clues in the print version of this puzzle appear in a single list, combining Across and Down. Where two answers share a number, they also share a clue.
Notepad: The answers to the 13 starred clues have something in common.
Notepad: The clues in the print version of this puzzle appear in a single list, combining Across and Down. Where two answers share a number, the unclued Down answer is a homophone of the corresponding Across answer.
Notepad: While some Across clues in this puzzle are blank, every answer is in fact clued.
Notepad: When this puzzle has been completed, shade in the letters of 35-Across everywhere they appear in the grid, revealing three letters and three lines.
Notepad: Diamond (starting at third square of 109-Across)
NE "Now I've seen everything!", NW Swipes a base, SW Show, SE Didn't go out
Notepad: DIAGONAL
1 Face imaginary enemies
7 1972 Bill Withers #1 hit
37 Bettor's buy
Notepad: Note: When this puzzle has been completed, the following answers will form a progression: 76A, 10D, 112A, 22A, 51A, 15D, 37A, 86D, 97A, 62D and 131A.
Notepad: In this schizophrenic puzzle about emperor penguins and daily newspapers, the answer for 46 Across can be either BLACK or WHITE. Each works for all the crossing clues.
Notepad: The eight theme answers in this puzzle are clues to common words. When the grid has been filled, guess these missing words, whose letters correspond to the numbers shown. Every number from 1 to 25 is used exactly twice. When you're done, arrange the letters in order from 1 to 25 to reveal a bit of advice about getting ahead.
Notepad: When this puzzle is completed, the circled letters, read in order from left to right (column by column), will reveal the name of a Mystery Person.
Notepad: Can you figure out what's unusual about this crossword? If not, when you're done, read the first letters of the clues in reverse order.
Notepad: This puzzle was never published in Across Lite format on the NYT website and it's available here for the first time. Note that for 1 Across, 1 Down, 34 Down, and 69 Across, the original split clues have been combined.
Click here for a PDF showing how the puzzle appeared in print,
here for the answers as published, and
here for a new Across Lite version.
Notepad: As a demonstration of speed puzzle construction at the 28th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, on March 11 in Stamford, Conn., Mike Shenk took a theme proposed by the audience and created this puzzle, start to finish, without computer-assisted fill, in 60 minutes. Later, in a race to solve it, Trip Payne, of Boca Raton, Fla., finished first, in 3 minutes. About two-thirds of the audience completed the puzzle correctly within the 15-minute time limit.
Notepad: When this puzzle is completed, solve the maze in the grid, traveling through the openings in the squares, beginning at 69-Across, ending at 103-Down...and passing over the word spelled at 71-Across 18 times. As you proceed, the consecutive letters of 71-Across will always be in their correct order, in straight lines reading forward, backward, up or down.
Notepad: The three circled letters will spell a word that is missing from 14 answers in this puzzle.
Notepad: Former President Bill Clinton, whose presidential library opened in Little Rock on Nov. 18, is a regular crossword solver. He pretested this puzzle for us, finishing it in "less than an hour." (How does your time compare?)
Notepad: The unkeyed square to the right of #36 has this "Down" clue: John Philip Sousa offering. And the unkeyed square numbered 42 has this "Down" clue: "Little Women" family name.
Notepad: Note: The circled letters will show a "change in the weather."
Notepad: The experience here is not quite the same as the
print version so give yourself full marks if you find nine mistakes.
1. unsymmetrical grid; 2. two-letter answers; 3. LORE in grid twice; 4. ACROSS heading instead of DOWN (not reproducible in this electronic version); 5. PUZLE misspelled (56A); 6. 50A clue out of order (49A and 50A are reversed in this version); 7. two 13D clues; 8. phony 37D clue; 9. 47D repeats answer as clue; 10. Will "Shorts"?
Notepad: 18- & 22-Across and 53- & 57-Across have a hidden connection to 36-Across.
Notepad: Note: A certain letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle exactly 21 times. When you have finished solving, find and connect these letters to get an appropriate design.
Notepad: Sixteen answers in this puzzle have something unusual in common. What is it?
Notepad: Note on 5/22 puzzle: MAN + MAN = MEN
Notepad: The circled diagonal letters will spell a hint to 8 other answers in the grid.
Notepad: This puzzle was never published in Across Lite format on the NYT website and it's available here for the first time. Clues shown here as ellipses (...) were simply omitted in the print version.
Notepad: The seven circled letters, reading in order from top to bottom, will spell the title of this puzzle.
Notepad: The print version of this puzzle has white spaces following 23-Across, between 37- and 39-Across, and preceding 49-Across.
Notepad: Visual hints to the answers to the asterisked clues (*) can be found in the grid.
Notepad: This puzzle has a complete set of related key words - occupying appropriate places in the grid - to be discovered.
Notepad: Note: In a letter bank, the letters of one word are used (and repeated as necessary) to spell a longer word or phrase. For example, IMPS is a letter bank of MISSISSIPPI.
Notepad: Note: Across Lite will consider a correct solution to 36-Across to be XXX.
Notepad: Despite appearances, every square in this themed puzzle appears in two answers, across and down.
Notepad: The answer to 39-Across, when translated by the cipher key at 20- and 55-Across (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, etc.), spells OUR COVER IS BLOWN.
Notepad: The tree shape when read counterclockwise gives the name of a Holiday tune.
Notepad: Each answer at 26-, 39-, 63-, 84- and 101-Across is a quiz question for which there is one correct response among the four choices in the clue. The circled letter in the answer is the correct response.
Notepad: In the print version, the squares at 5, 10, 45, 60, 90, 108, 139 and 140 were not numbered. There were no clues at 5-Down, 10-Down, 45-Across, 60-Down, 90-Across, 108-Down, 139-Across or 140-Across. Adjustments to accommodate Across Lite have resulted in the online puzzle having different clue numbers than the print version.
Notepad: The 10 unclued answers in this puzzle (from 20-Across to 57-Across) comprise a word ladder, in which one letter is changed between each consecutive step.
Notepad: HEART (Clockwise): 1955 Four Aces hit (and theme of this puzzle)
Notepad: DIAGONAL
1 Pirate booty
68 More pirate booty
Notepad: The answers at 20-, 32-, 43- and 58-Across form a progressive word ladder of five-letter words, where each word is one letter different from the one before it.
Notepad: A particular thing -- a common part of almost all crosswords -- is wholly missing today. What is it?
Notepad: The names of 12 common animals are concealed inside some of the answers in the completed grid, reading across and down. Can you find them all?
Notepad: Circled entries contain 2 letters
Notepad: Today the U.S. Postal Service unveils a 32-cent stamp commemorating the American invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913. (The stamp goes on sale February 3.) If puzzlers were in charge of the celebration, this might be the schedule of events...
Notepad: More descriptive names to differentiate old things from their new form
Notepad: In E-mail messages, faces are sometimes created by combinations of letters, numbers and punctuation marks, as :-( for a frowning face. Tilt your head 90 degrees to the left to view
Notepad: March 14, 1995 marked the 50,000 issue of the New York Times
Notepad: All the boxes in 74-Across have a diagonal line bisecting them allowing the entry of two letters. No answer is included...you'll know when you get it
Notepad: The unclued answers have something in common
Notepad: The rebus squares below indicate where answers take a right angle turn. The first letter of each pair belongs to the answer that starts from the left and bends down. The second letter is from the answer that starts above and bends to the right. In the print version, those squares are bisected with a line from the NW to SE corner.
Notepad: This puzzle is dedicated to the memory of Eugene T. Maleska, who created the first Stepquote
Notepad: The 10 unclued answer in this puzzle are familiar phrases presented literally. When the puzzle is completed, the 12 circled letter - reading in order from top to bottom - will spell an appropriate phrase
Notepad: Diagonal clue: Opening of 5/4/93
