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This version contains the Connections archive, featuring over 450 official puzzles from past days.
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Daylight Saving Time ended on November 7. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS has appeared in the Crossword twice in the Shortz era, clued as “Dracula’s least favorite time?” and “Summer time.” DST, on the other hand, has appeared 87 times, clued as “Something to fall back from: Abbr.,” “Something you might lose a little sleep over?: Abbr.” and “Occasion to do a late shift?: Abbr.”
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If you reach Genius in Spelling Bee on October 31, you will reveal Beeatrice’s special Halloween hat.
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If you reach Genius in Spelling Bee on October 31, you will reveal Beeatrice’s special Halloween hat.
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The following clues have appeared in the Daily Crossword, all with the same answer. What is it?
“October décor”
“Symbol of harvest time”
“Symbol of fall”
Answer: PUMPKIN
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We just released our 100th Connections puzzle.
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It’s that time of year! The following clues have appeared in the Daily Crossword, all with the same answer. What is it?”
“Subside”
“Occur”
“Spill”
“Eden event”
Answer: FALL
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Our newest word game, Connections, is now in the app. Play today’s puzzle to group words that share a common thread.
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July is here! Can you solve these Independence Day-inspired clues?
“Bested at Nathan’s on July 4, e.g.”
“4th order?”
“Fourth of July earful”
“Stick around on July 4?”
Answers: OUTATE, FIREWORKS, SWEET CORN, SPARKLER
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July is here! Can you solve these Independence Day-inspired clues?
“Bested at Nathan’s on July 4, e.g.”
“4th order?”
“Fourth of July earful”
“Stick around on July 4?”
Answers: OUTATE, FIREWORKS, SWEET CORN, SPARKLER
You can now pick a date and view your Mini Crossword leaderboard status on previous puzzles! This version also includes a previous fix for the issue making it difficult for select players to access their subscription to NYT Games via the app.
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June 21 is the summer solstice! Some past clues in the Daily Crossword have included “It never occurs above the Arctic Circle during the summer solstice,” and “Like the day of the summer solstice”.
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The New York Times Crossword app is now the New York Times Games app!
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March marches on. Can you solve these clues for words associated with “March”?
“Storied loser in an upset”
“Day after Pi Day, e.g.”
“Theme in "Hamlet"”
“Novel that begins “Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents””
Answers: HARE, IDES, MADNESS, LITTLE WOMEN
This version includes Sudoku. Now you can play the numbers game, plus Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword and The Mini Crossword in the app.
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It’s February! What’s something that February has? A silent letter! Silent letters have been featured in the Daily Crossword, disguised with tricky clues like:
One of two circuit court characters?
What repeats in solemn hymns but isn’t in hymnals?
Thyme piece?
Matte finish?
Bit of cocoa?
February 4th, for many?
Handsome trait?
What's that spell?
UNHEARD
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#FunFact Valentine’s Day is coming up! While VALENTINE has only appeared in the Daily Crossword five times in the Shortz era, this entry has shown up in nearly 300 grids, clued as “Love symbol that names another love symbol if you move the first letter to the end,” “One who takes a bow before success rather than after?” and “Love child?” Can you guess the word?
Answer: EROS
Reach Genius or Queen Bee on Spelling Bee? Tell your friends. Now there's an easy way to share your success on social or via text.
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#FunFact The Spelling Bee mascot is named Beeatrice.
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December 21 is National Crossword Puzzle Day! Ready to play? Celebrate by solving in our Crossword and Mini archives.
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Daylight Saving Time ended on November 7. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS has appeared in the Crossword twice in the Shortz era, clued as “Dracula’s least favorite time?” and “Summer time.” DST, on the other hand, has appeared 87 times, clued as “Something to fall back from: Abbr.,” “Something you might lose a little sleep over?: Abbr.” and “Occasion to do a late shift?: Abbr.”
We’re happy to share that the issue that scrambled letters within The Crossword is fixed in this build.
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This week’s #FunFact is in honor of “Squid Game”: SQUID has appeared in the daily Crossword six times in the Shortz era, clued as “Ika, at a sushi bar,” “Tentacled sea creature” and the devious “Ink dispenser.” GAME has appeared 63 times, and its clues have included “Up (or down) for something,” “Deer and fox, e.g.” and “Go, for one.”
Calling all Wordle fans! Solvers can now play Wordle in this version of the app.
And to the Spelling Bee #hivemind - you asked, and we answered. Pangrams now appear bolded as you find them throughout the day.
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9/9 is National Sudoku Day! Can you solve these clues? “45, for each row and column in a sudoku grid,” “What a crossword has that a sudoku doesn’t” and “Comics character who once, surprisingly, solved a sudoku puzzle”
Answers: SUM/CLUES/ODIE
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9/9 is National Sudoku Day! Can you solve these clues? “45, for each row and column in a sudoku grid,” “What a crossword has that a sudoku doesn’t” and “Comics character who once, surprisingly, solved a sudoku puzzle”
Answers: SUM/CLUES/ODIE
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August 26th is Dog Appreciation Day! DOG has appeared in the Daily Crossword 72 times in the Shortz era. Recently, DOG was clued as "Animal for which the Canary Islands are named," since their Latin name is Insula Canaria, or "island of the dogs." PUPPY has been clued as "Spot early on?," "Lightweight boxer?," and "Brand-new toy?" Aww!
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March Madness is here! NCAA has appeared a whopping 143 times in the Daily Crossword, clued recently as “Grp. with much-discussed amateurism rules” and “Org. at the center of modern "name, image and likeness" legislation.”
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December 25 is Christmas! Some Christmas-related entries that have appeared in the daily Crossword include MALL SANTA (“Worker always seen with a beard”), REINDEER (“Package deliverers of the present day?”), XMAS (“Short winter holiday?”) and ELF (“One with a pole position?”).
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Daylight Saving Time ends on November 7. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS has appeared in the Crossword twice in the Shortz era, clued as “Dracula’s least favorite time?” and “Summer time.” DST, on the other hand, has appeared 87 times, clued as “Something to fall back from: Abbr.,” “Something you might lose a little sleep over?: Abbr.” and “Occasion to do a late shift?: Abbr.”
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Happy Halloween! GHOST has appeared in the daily Crossword 24 times in the Shortz era, clued as everything from “Classic Halloween costume,” “Popular word game,” “Hamlet’s father, e.g.” and the tricky “Dead man walking?”
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Canadian Thanksgiving is on October 11. THANKSGIVING appeared in a puzzle in October of 2009, clued as “Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters KSG.” Other theme clues used the letter strings “MPG,” “ADQ,” “ZKR,” “SPB” and “NKC.” Can you guess what the common words are?
Answers: CAMPGROUND, HEADQUARTERS, BLITZKRIEG, RASPBERRY, CRANKCASE
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Star Trek Day was on September 8. STAR TREK was once clued as “TV show with the most spinoffs, according to the Guinness Book”; this record has since been surpassed by Japan’s “Ultraman” series (which has never been clued as such in the Crossword).
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Most crossword grids have symmetry — most often rotational symmetry (the black square pattern will look the same when turned upside down), but also left-right (mirror) symmetry. Occasionally, there will be a puzzle that does neither, in order to create images with the black squares instead.
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FACT: FACT has appeared in the daily Crossword 40 times in the Shortz era, clued as “There are 336 dimples on a typical golf ball, for instance,” “You’d better believe it!” and “It’s not fancy.”
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July 17th is National Emoji Day! EMOJI made its debut in the daily Crossword in 2014, and has appeared 18 times since. Some tricky clues have included “Face of modern technology,” “Icon of the small screen?,” and “Bit of graphic language?” A puzzle from Feb. 9, 2020, had a theme that clued famous films using only emojis! The puzzle’s title was, aptly, “The Emoji Movie.”
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June 20th is the first day of summer! SUMMER has appeared as an answer in the daily puzzle seven times in the Shortz era. It's been clued straightforwardly as “One of the four seasons” in a Tuesday puzzle; examples of trickier later-week clues include the devilish "6-9 months?" and “Time to burn?,” which both ran on Fridays.
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Happy Pride Month! Recent Pride-related entries in the daily Crossword include PRIDE PARADE, PRIDE MONTH, GAY PRIDE and RAINBOW FLAG. A rainbow flag-themed puzzle ran in June 2018; its grid was 17x13 squares, and contained six themed rows that each represented a colored stripe in the flag. A stunning feat of construction!
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Eid al-Fitr was on March 13, marking the end of Ramadan. RAMADAN has appeared as an answer in the daily Crossword eight times in the Shortz era; it’s also appeared in the Crossword’s clues 15 times during that period, for entries like EID and FAST.
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Happy Earth Day! The entry GREEN has appeared in the daily Crossword 25 times in the Shortz era. From 1995 to 2002, it was clued to mean “environmentally conscious” only three times out of its 13 appearances, or about 23 percent. Since 2007, it’s become the preferred definition, accounting for 50 percent of GREEN’s total appearances (six out of 12). Earth Day is April 22
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The most popular answer for all Shortz-era crosswords is ERA. It has appeared more than 600 times to date, or once in every 16 puzzles!
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Believe it or not, “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” appeared once as a full answer in the New York Times Crossword. It was written across 14 squares: one syllable (“SU,” “PER,” “CAL,” etc.) in each.
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So far in 2020, more than 1,900 new answers have appeared in the Crossword. Some have already appeared more than once since, including: MINDBLOWN, MEETCUTE, WAKANDA, GLAMPING and HATEWATCH.
We've added a new game for subscribers! Play Spelling Bee every day with a Crossword subscription.
We've also fixed an issue affecting users on Android 6 and 7 devices.
#FunFacts
What's a seven-letter word for a wordsmith's feat? PANGRAM has appeared in the Crossword 3 times.
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app! Here's what's new in version 3.1.0:
Updates to our code to keep the app running smoothly.
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DATA has appeared in the Crossword 115 times in the past 26 years, often clued as "facts and figures." Other references have changed over time:
- Disk contents
- Flash drive filler
- It may be stored on the cloud
- What your phone uses up when you're not on Wi-Fi
You want to solve the Crossword. We want to help! We’ve been updating our code and fixing some bugs, including improving the experience on smaller devices.
#FunFacts
The most common three-letter answer in The New York Times Crossword is ERA, with nearly 1,500 appearances.
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app! Here's what's new in version 3.0.1 (668):
More updates of our code and a rebus bug fixed to keep you solving smoothly.
#FunFact: With your Google Play Crossword subscription you can link your NYT account in app, then use those same credentials and access more games at nytimes.com/games
You want to solve the Crossword. We want to help! We’ve been updating our code and fixing some bugs to keep you solving smoothly.
#FunFact The New York Times Crossword has published contributors from ages 13 to 100.
You want to solve the Crossword. We want to help! We’ve been updating our code and fixing some bugs to keep you solving smoothly.
#FunFact The New York Times Crossword has published contributors from ages 13 to 100.
You want to solve the Crossword. We want to help! We’ve been updating our code and fixing some bugs to keep you solving smoothly.
#FunFact The New York Times Crossword has published contributors from ages 13 to 100.
You want to solve the Crossword. We want to help! We’ve been updating our code and fixing some bugs to keep you solving smoothly.
#FunFact The New York Times Crossword has published contributors from ages 13 to 100.
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app! Here's what's new in version 2.1.1
Now you can turn on night mode for the puzzle solving screen! After you open a puzzle, tap on the settings icon to switch to night mode. Turning on night mode will darken your screen for a more comfortable evening solving experience.
#FunFact: NIGHT and MODE are both common answers (33 and 48 occurrences), but they never related to one another in the app until now.
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app! Here's what's new in version 2.0.1
Compete amongst friends around the Mini! We’ve launched personal Mini leaderboards which you can get to from the navigation tabs at the top of the app. These are personal leaderboards, so the only people you will see on your leaderboard are people you invite to join or confirm to add. You can have up to 25 people on your leaderboard. This feature requires you to create a New York Times account.
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app! Here's what's new in version 2.0.0
Compete amongst friends around the Mini! We’ve launched personal Mini leaderboards which you can get to from the navigation tabs at the top of the app. These are personal leaderboards, so the only people you will see on your leaderboard are people you invite to join or confirm to add. You can have up to 25 people on your leaderboard. This feature requires you to create a New York Times account.
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app! Here's what's new in version 1.9.2 (611)
Some of you have generated huge streaks by solving each day’s puzzle before midnight - but we want to celebrate the fact that for many of us, it’s rewarding to solve three Monday or Tuesday puzzles in a row. So now we’re highlighting day of week streaks after you solve.
#Fun Fact
STREAK has appeared in the puzzle 19 times in the last 25 years, clued most often (and cleverly) as Run out of clothes?!
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app! Here's what's new in version 1.8.1 (602)
More Daily puzzles on the Featured screen - now you can find more puzzles to play in our main tab!
Check out the new "From the Archive" section: curated puzzles from our nearly 25 years of content
Fixed a crash on the Archive screen
# Fun Fact
October marks the 10th anniversary of the Wordplay Column, providing you solving tips on every daily puzzle, constructing tips and more at nytimes.com/wordplay
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app. Here's what's new in version 1.7.0 (594)
- Introducing Autocheck! It’s your puzzle and you can solve any way you like - this new solving option (click the gear above the grid) allows you to have your answers checked as you type in each letter
- Difficulty badges to help guide new users during the free trial
- Several minor bug fixes
#FunFact
The New York Times Crossword has published contributors from ages 13 to 100
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app. Here's what's new in version 1.6.6 (580)
- Offline fixes for our subway solvers
- Feedback emails will no longer crash in rare situations
- Fixed a subscription issue
- Made things better for devices with curved screens
- Several minor bug fixes
#FunFact: You CAN put more than one letter in a square (see how at https://nyti.ms/xword-rebus); There were 20 puzzles with a Rebus in 2016, 16 last year and 12 so far this year!
Here's what's new in version 1.6.5 (578)
# Updates
- Fixes a crash on login for Android 8.0 tablet users
- GDPR compliance for EU users
- Some fixes for users that did not link their subscription to a New York Times account
- Fixed some bugs we introduced with authentication
#Fun Facts
The answer BEE has appeared 157 times in our daily and mini crosswords during the Will Shortz era. Here are some of our favorite clever clues:
Bud drinker?
Cell occupant?
Plant visitor?
Stingy one?
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- GDPR compliance for EU users
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- Fixed some bugs we introduced with authentication
#Fun Facts
The answer BEE has appeared 157 times in our daily and mini crosswords during the Will Shortz era. Here are some of our favorite clever clues:
Bud drinker?
Cell occupant?
Plant visitor?
Stingy one?
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app. Here's what's new in version 1.4.3 (502)
- Streaks! See your streaks on the completely rewritten archive!
- To get a gold star and qualify for a streak, you must complete a full-size puzzle with no checks or reveals before midnight Pacific time on the day following print publication.
- More reliable syncing with our server and other bug fixes
#FunFact The user with the longest streak has kept their streak alive for over 1,200 days
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app. Here's what's new in version 1.3.0 (421)- You now have until midnight Pacific Time to earn a gold star- Larger clue text by default- Always prompt for reveal/reset- Support captcha within the app that was preventing people from logging in- Several other bug fixes#FunFact Did you miss the December 17th Sunday paper that contained this year's Puzzle Mania? You can order a back copy by calling 800-543-5380
Thanks for solving with the NYTimes Crossword app. Here's what's new in version 1.2.0 (383)- Zoom in! Pinch the puzzle grid with your fingers to zoom in, making it easier to solve- Social Sign In: create an account using Google or Facebook to save your progress and play across devices- Blur the puzzle on solve, for spoiler-free screenshot sharing- Additional bugs squashed#FunFact: ZOOM appeared twice in one answer in the 9/1/2011 puzzle
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