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Paolo Pasco, a games editor at TED, won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 2024 and 2025. He is the author of “Crossword Puzzles for Kids.” ...

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Welcome to Fifteen Minutes first-ever (to my knowledge) cryptic crossword. Cryptics are the trickier and weirder British cousin of normal crosswords. Whereas a normal crossword’s clues only have a ...

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon start our cryptic year with a brilliant au revoir. By Caitlin Lovinger CRYPTIC CROSSWORD — According to Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, this is it — their last cryptic ...