Substack users range from journalists to experts to large media sites. Christopher Best operates as chief executive as of March 2019. Best and McKenzie describe Ben Thompson's Stratechery, a subscription-based tech and media newsletter, as a major inspiration for their platform. Trying to get back to the puzzle page? Right here.Substack was founded in 2017 by Chris Best, the co-founder of Kik Messenger Jairaj Sethi, a developer and Hamish McKenzie, a former PandoDaily tech reporter. Warning: There be spoilers ahead, but subscribers can take a peek at the answer key.
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For tips on how to get started, read our series, “ How to Make a Crossword Puzzle.” The Tipping PointĪlmost finished solving but need a bit more help? We’ve got you covered. The New York Times Crossword has an open submission system, and you can submit your puzzles online. Want to Submit Crosswords to The New York Times? If you’re interested in receiving puzzles, brain teasers, solving tips and more in your inbox every week, sign up for the new Gameplay newsletter. Special thanks to Liz Chen, Alex Lazar and Oriana Wen, who are great test solvers and even better friends. I also wonder how many people have PET LOBSTERs. Other themers I considered were LITTLE FINGER and BLACK SESAME. I hope figuring out the theme of my puzzle brings you some joy. Even when we were all stuck at home, we would meet on Zoom to chat and solve crosswords and cryptics together.Īll of this puzzling got me thinking about how crosswords are put together and what themes I really enjoy. I started recording videos as I solved the puzzles, and posted them to YouTube to share with friends. I was gifted a New York Times subscription (thanks Phil!) and the crossword became part of my daily routine. I enjoyed solving them with her, but in the years that followed, my crosswording was mostly limited to in-flight magazines and the back page of my college newspaper.īut during the lockdowns of the pandemic, doing crossword puzzles helped to keep me sane. My older sister first introduced me to crossword puzzles when I was in middle school and she was visiting home from college. Won has identified three more possible themers in his notes. This is an impressive theme set - I’m sure finding even three possible theme entries was an incredible undertaking, and it’s even more impressive that Mr. Finally, we’ve got MOON JELLY (40A: “Ocean invertebrate with a round, translucent body”), which becomes MOON ROCK and JELLY ROLL (more deliciousness!). The second theme entry is BEDSPRING (33A: “Coil in a mattress”), which becomes BEDROCK (home of the Flintstones) and SPRING ROLL (another undeniably delicious treat). Following the instructions of the revealer, we can put the word ROCK after BLACK to create BLACKROCK (the name of an investment management corporation) and ROLL after COFFEE to create COFFEE ROLL (an undeniably delicious treat).
This is just an incredible bit of wordplay.įirst, at 17A, we have BLACK COFFEE (“Easy order for a barista”). “John of Salisbury” is asking for another way of saying “john” (“bathroom”) in Salisbury (a city in England). John of Salisbury was a 12th-century author and philosopher, but that’s not who we are talking about here. I’m calling it now - “John of Salisbury” is the clue of the week for me. Another question mark means another pun - “Pisa dough?” is a play on “pizza dough,” but instead of the delicious base for a Pisan pizza, we’re looking for the type of money (“dough”) that one might use in Pisa: EUROS.ĥ8D.
If I hadn’t had any crosses in, and missed the question mark in the clue, I could easily have entered “woo” as the answer to this clue: “Go a-courting?” That question mark, however, tells us that the clue is actually a pun - in this case, if you go a-courting, you may be going to court to SUE someone.Ħ2A. People who play the oboe are called OBOISTS, and the oboe is a reed instrument.Ĥ8A. I enjoyed the clue “They play among the reeds” for OBOISTS.
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