How cryptic crosswords make you look at the world differently

They’re not easy, but the brain-bending puzzles are a celebration of “the hidden magic within language”. Not to mention ...
The New York Times

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto, two professionals, knock a cryptic puzzle out of the park. By Caitlin Lovinger CRYPTIC CROSSWORD — This has been a great year for variety puzzles, in my opinion, ...
The New Yorker

Announcing an All-New Weekly Cryptic Crossword from The New Yorker

“There are crossword puzzles and crossword puzzles,” Stephen Sondheim wrote in 1968, by way of an introduction to the British-style cryptic puzzle he briefly constructed for New York magazine. One ...
Harper's Magazine

Word Collision

Richard E. Maltby Jr. on his fifty years of writing puzzles for Harper’s Magazine, his side hustle as a musical lyricist and Tony Award–winning director, and the crossword’s place in contemporary Amer ...
Adventure Gamers

Unboxing the Cryptic Killer: A Co-op Puzzle Adventure

Unboxing the Cryptic Killer is a co-op puzzle game that follows the story of two amateur sleuths who receive a mysterious package containing a cryptex. The cryptex leads them on a journey to solve a ...
Yahoo

Everyone Should Be Doing This Peculiar, Pleasurable, Underappreciated Kind of Crossword

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Variety Puzzle

The Long and Winding Road (Saturday Variety Puzzle, July 19) The Long and Winding Road (Saturday Variety Puzzle, July 19) The Journal Acrostic (Saturday Variety Puzzle, July 12) The Journal Acrostic ...