Puzzles & Games
Name Drop
Name Drop: Monday, December 20, 2021
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Will Nediger
Name Drop: Friday, December 17, 2021
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Liz Maynes-Aminzade
Name Drop: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Matt Jackson
Name Drop: Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Liz Maynes-Aminzade
Name Drop: Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Liz Maynes-Aminzade
Name Drop: Monday, December 13, 2021
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Liz Maynes-Aminzade

Crossword
The Crossword: Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Pinch, as an empanada’s edge: five letters.
By Elizabeth C. Gorski
Cryptic Crossword
The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 19, 2021
A particularly dotty puzzle.
By Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 12, 2021
Listen to lead member of the Beatles (5).
By Patrick Berry
The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 5, 2021
Magritte lodged in Pyrenees (4).
By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, November 21, 2021
American river circles around Hawaii (4).
By Patrick Berry
From the Cartoons & Puzzles Issue
In the Doggerel House
Can you identify the work of literature described in each poem, and find the character whose name is hidden within?
By Andy Kravis and Liz Maynes-Aminzade
How to Play
Introducing Name Drop: a Daily Trivia Game from The New Yorker
A new way to experience the old pleasure of knowing things.
By Liz Maynes-Aminzade
Reintroducing The New Yorker’s Cryptic Crossword
Our delightfully devious cryptic is back. Here’s how to solve it.
By Nicholas Henriquez and Liz Maynes-Aminzade