Every week, the NYT Sunday Magazine publishes a large crossword and one or more variety puzzles. Acrostics alternate weeks with cryptics and various other special puzzles.
There is some brilliant work here that I want to organize and surface for others to see. Many of the best clues have been in acrostics or other variety puzzles.
Acrostics are included back to mid-1999. Other puzzles similar to crosswords going back to 1997, including cryptic, diagramless, and panda (Puns and Anagram) puzzles, can be solved here online. More unusual variety puzzles like Split Decisions and Marching Bands can be downloaded as PDFs for you to print out and solve on paper.
Yes! See the Collaboration Mode FAQ. Collaboration mode is not supported for Acrostics.
Mostly yes. Finder searches can show Variety results separately.
In early 2023, the New York Times stopped supporting digital versions of all Variety puzzles. I'm including as many as I can here. Most are hand-digitized just for this site.
You must be signed in with your XWord Info account to view or solve the Variety puzzles. As of now, any account level will do, although that requirement might increase in the future.
PDF-only puzzles must, of course, be printed out to solve. Acrostics can be solved on a computer or a tablet. Phones don't work well because there's too much information on the screen. For now, other puzzle types like Cryptics require a mouse and keyboard.
There's also a combined list of all Variety puzzles you can solve with your XWord Info account.
Yes.
At least the main Variety puzzles. There are other smaller puzzles like KenKen that I don't include.
Yeah, sorry about that.
Although I get early access to the puzzles, XWord Info is independent of the Times. It's an expensive site to run. New Variety puzzles are hand-digitized — a cumbersome manual process.
Of course! No questions asked.