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Name Drop: Monday, December 20, 2021

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

Name Drop: Friday, December 17, 2021

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

Name Drop: Thursday, December 16, 2021

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

Name Drop: Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

Name Drop: Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

Name Drop: Monday, December 13, 2021

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

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The Cover Crossword

The ABCs of solving.

The Crossword: Monday, December 20, 2021

Animal on a ten-rand banknote: five letters.

The Crossword: Friday, December 17, 2021

Noise from a hedgerow: six letters.

The Crossword: Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Pinch, as an empanada’s edge: five letters.

The Crossword: Monday, December 13, 2021

A challenging puzzle.

The Crossword: Friday, December 10, 2021

1991 prize for Nadine Gordimer: five letters.

Cryptic Crossword

The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 19, 2021

A particularly dotty puzzle.

The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 12, 2021

Listen to lead member of the Beatles (5).

The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 5, 2021

Magritte lodged in Pyrenees (4).

The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, November 28, 2021

Mad Hatter’s ultimatum (6).

The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, November 21, 2021

American river circles around Hawaii (4).

The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, November 14, 2021

Facial hair has to hurt (8).

From the Cartoons & Puzzles Issue

The Impossible Crossword

Acrostic

In the Doggerel House

Can you identify the work of literature described in each poem, and find the character whose name is hidden within?

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.

Reintroducing The New Yorker’s Cryptic Crossword

Our delightfully devious cryptic is back. Here’s how to solve it.