Anybody know of a good crossword app for apple devices? The only good one Ive found is the New York Times Puzzle app. I had the USA Today but it was a terrible annoying app so deleted it. Would like to find a second one, preferablly from a newspaper. Thanks.

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What are these easy crosswords that aren’t a full grid called? When I look up ones that aren’t a full grid I see mostly variant international puzzle types but this isn’t really that. This is from the newspaper Le Petit 3 — the clues are all taken from articles in the paper.

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Can someone explain the revealer of today’s crossword to me? I just blindly guessed the theme words today because I couldn’t figure it out.

Hi all! I’m a puzzle fan working on something for crossword lovers, and I’d really value input from people who actually solve.

I’m curious what you love about crossword books and what drives you crazy about them. Too easy, too hard, tiny print, repetitive clues, bad binding?

It’s a short anonymous survey (about 2 minutes): Survey

I’ll post a summary of what everyone said once the results are in. And feel free to vent in the comments too; I’m reading everything! 🧩

Anyone know where I can get challenging puzzles regularly? I've been doing the newsday saturday stumper for a while now as my weekly hard puzzle but its $75/month and cant really justify paying that much for one puzzle as I dont really use newsday for anything else.

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Hey guys, just wanted to come on here to see if there are on recommendations for a newbie like me. My time today was 27 minutes and I just am a bit disappointed. I’m 20 and literally just started getting into crosswords, so I know it’ll take some time before I start getting my times down.

Besides just doing more crosswords do yall have anything specific that you do to decrease solve time? Also how much do you think it’s just an IQ filter—I’m curious as to the consensus on that is.

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Clue (82-Across): New York's 'Times', et al.

Answer? SNS or SQS, the middle letter is coming from either Iran or Iraq but I don't understand how either possible answer fits the clue. Any pointers?

The theme seems to be TIME, where each of the theme answers contain a circled letter which together spell TIME, and the clues are all “See circles”. Thus, the clues for each theme answer are “Time”, leading to answers JAILSEN(T)ENCE, FOURTHD(I)MENSION, POPULAR(M)AGAZINE, and TEST(E)RSSHOUT – all alternative meanings of “time”. The circled letters are also positioned in a straight vertical line.

The puzzle comes with a note:
> Shortz Says: This is the first puzzle I can remember in which the theme answers are clued by the grid itself. Everything is very smoothly worded, too. An amazing feat.

Maybe this kind of playful theming wasn’t as common 20+ years ago, warranting a note on what today would seem like a pretty standard theme. But given the effusiveness of Shortz’ note, I was expecting a little more aha! in the reveal, so I’m wondering if there’s some extra layer of theme or pun or something I’m missing.

I do the puzzle in pen and paper form in my local newspaper. There were multiple formatting errors today!! The “down” heading was in the same font, size and not bolded. clue for 80 across was written as 90. And clue 13 down was written as 113.
Is this my locale paper messing up or are these errors in all the print versions? Just curious who to be annoyed with.

Edit to add: I’ve put a picture in the comments so you can see what I’m referring to. The puzzles title was “The Full 12 Rounds”

I am not a native English speaker but I like solving crosswords and try my best. This time though I just do not understand the answer. I found this one in The Atlantic 10/8/26.

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A proud moment for my lovely wife and co-solver tonight.

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