Reviving this @xkcd.com gem to say congratulations to best picture winner #ANORA! You've made crossword puzzle constructors everywhere very happy!

Today's @newyorker.com crossword was made by @natanlast.bsky.social and me, constructed for the 2024 New Yorker Festival master class “The Art of the Crossword.” The video of us and Puzzles & Games editor @lizzymaynes.bsky.social is now live! www.newyorker.com/culture/vide...

The Westport Library crossword tournament. Will Shortz is playing word games with the crowd while we wait to find out which solvers will be in the finals. #crossword

It breaks my heart to tell you that we lost our home to the Altadena fires. It’s completely gone. Thankfully, we’re safe with our dog across town, hosted by some dear friends. I never thought this would be me, but a friend made us this GFM, which I post here with incredible humility:

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Lots of people posting new personal best solving times on my NYT crossword today. If you've been hesitant to try solving a Friday because you think they're too hard, today is a good day to give it a try!

Puzzle Mania, our special print puzzle section, appeared in your Sunday paper — and you can also find it in the Times store: nyti.ms/3Vk79xs This is how our puzzle makers create the giant crossword that is the centerpiece of our 12-page special section: nyti.ms/3Zzqm0X

🎵🎶 ... it's the most wonderful time of the year ...🎵🎶

A crossword sky starter pack! I’m very sure this is incomplete, so please just say the word if I forgot you and you’ll be added straightaway. go.bsky.app/4XAq8FH

reminder puzzle friends: the strike is over and you can resume solving your morning wordle/connections/sudoku/etc. and using the Cooking app if so desired.

As far as I know, the Tech Guild strike is over, although they still don’t have a contract. So, Wordle? Spelling Bee? Connections? The Crossword? Have at it.

This summer I constructed a NYT crossword puzzle in real time for the podcast "BBC in the Studio". It was an amazing experience and I'm so grateful to have a recording of my process (even if it wasn't pretty at times). The resulting puzzle is now live! www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/c...

I'm honored to have today's Washington Post Sunday puzzle while @evanbirnholz.bsky.social enjoys his paternity leave. www.washingtonpost.com/crossword-pu...

Very excited to add USA Today to my list of puzzle credits! Thank you Amanda Rafkin! @amandarafkin.bsky.social