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“The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief” by Alan Connor (Gotham/Gotham) By Jonathan Yardley July 25 at 1:21 PM These words are written on a bright Saturday morning in the spring of 2014, a morning...

Have you seen the movie The Imitation Game, based on Alan Turing? If you have, I am sure you noticed how at one point Turing, when he needed to hire people to work under him, used a difficult crossword puzzle in a newspaper to test potential applicants...

A grander venue, many first-time finalists, a bigger audience, a new "buzzer" round in the on-stage finals – IXL 2015 finals took things up another notch this year. Many of the top rankers could not attend the finals this time – this led to an opportunity...

Demented LRH wrote: I do not know the NY Times crossword rules, but I thought that "cruise control" are two words, not one word. More difficult crossword puzzles often have multiple word answers, which are entered into the puzzle without spaces between...

Cryptic crossword puzzles are especially fun and challenging. They can also be some of the most difficult crosswords. Can you solve ours?