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What is the hardest nytimes crossword day? ›

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be as difficult as a Thursday puzzle.

A bite-sized version of the New York Times' well-known crossword puzzle, The Mini is a quick and easy way to test your crossword skills daily in a lot less time (the average puzzle takes most players just over a minute to solve).

Most cryptic crosswords provide the number of letters in the answer, or in the case of phrases, a series of numbers to denote the letters in each word: "cryptic crossword" would be clued with "(7,9)" following the clue. More advanced puzzles may drop this portion of the clue.

The daily Crossword puzzles are printed in the Arts section of the print edition of The New York Times Monday through Saturday. The Sunday Crossword puzzle is printed in the Sunday Magazine.

In case you didn't know, the daily New York Times Crossword has a difficulty curve as the week goes on. Monday is the easiest puzzle, and then Tuesday is a little harder, climbing up to Saturday, which is the hardest day of the week.

How hard could it be? The Saturday crossword is actually the hardest puzzle of the week. Mondays have the most straightforward clues and Saturday clues are the hardest, or involve the most wordplay. Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday puzzles are midweek difficulty, not the hardest.

Puzzle hack: Don't waste time puzzling over clues that you can't solve right away. Pick out the easier clues – what you know and fill-in-the-blanks clues – and solve those first. tl;dr: Check your answer by seeing if you can correctly fill in the other entries that cross it.

That's because The Mini and Sodoku reset their puzzles at 10:00PM on weekdays, , and 6:00 PM on weekends. This can be extremely misleading as the notion is that there is one puzzle per day, but the puzzles switch before the day is over or sometimes in the middle of the day.

For both app and online, select the pencil icon to switch from one mode to the other. Letters entered in the default pen mode are black, while letters entered in pencil mode are gray. Select the pencil icon (so it's highlighted) to solve in pencil mode.

By convention (no firm rule on this), clues in square brackets indicate a non-verbal action or a utterance.

What does eg mean in crosswords? ›

For example – EG (e.g., short for the Latin exempli gratia)

However, many times the blank space can be filled in with two or more words. In easier crosswords, multiple words will be indicated with (2 words) or (2 wds.), but more often than not it will be up to the solver to determine how many words fill in the space. Another hint sometimes used in clues is (hyphenated).

1. Monday is the easiest puzzle day, Saturday is the hardest. Most people assume the iconic Sunday NYT puzzle is the most challenging, but most crossword enthusiasts find Saturday's puzzles have the highest level of difficulty.

“Unfair, to Brits,” refers to a sport that's popular worldwide, and famous for its scrupulous governance. An injustice or example of dishonesty can be described as NOT CRICKET. 58A.

A rebus in a crossword is a specific square in which multiple letters should be input to form part of the solution. For example a player may see squares for 5-letters to be input, but the final square could contain a word or multiple letters instead of just one letter.

A renowned British crossword maker called Marc Breman created in 2018 what's thought to be the world's hardest cryptic crossword to date. Not only are the clues fiendishly hard, but the crossword itself is rather large, with 64 clues.

The daily puzzles are arranged in graded difficulty from Monday (easiest) through Saturday (hardest). The Sunday puzzle, which is larger—typically 21x21, vs 15x15 for the daily—is said to have a difficulty equivalent to about Thursday.

Monday is the easiest and Saturday is the hardest, with Sunday puzzles being larger and having the difficulty of about a Thursday puzzle. The biggest jump in difficulty is from Tuesday and Wednesday as the words get longer and longer and the clues get trickier. Hope this helps.

At the Times and other publications, contributors submit crosswords, and are paid if theirs are chosen. (The Times offers the industry's highest rates – up to $750 for a weekday puzzle, and up to $2,250 for a Sunday – and authors are credited.)