One On A Rack Nyt Crossword (2024)

FAQs

What is the hardest day New York Times crossword puzzle clue? ›

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be as difficult as a Thursday puzzle.

As you work through puzzles, you'll find that boxes call for multiple letters—these are known as Rebus clues. To enter more than one letter into a single box, tap the More or … key, tap Rebus, and then enter your letters.

The “Game with a hands-down winner?” is TWISTER. This is a great clue that is both clever and brings back good memories.

My first theme entry was 80-Down, the “Attraction in 69-Across where crocodiles and alligators uniquely coexist.” A long time ago, I learned this factoid in person on a canoe trip to the EVERGLADES.

In case you didn't know, the daily New York Times Crossword has a difficulty curve as the week goes on. Monday is the easiest puzzle, and then Tuesday is a little harder, climbing up to Saturday, which is the hardest day of the week.

A renowned British crossword maker called Marc Breman created in 2018 what's thought to be the world's hardest cryptic crossword to date. Not only are the clues fiendishly hard, but the crossword itself is rather large, with 64 clues.

Over the years, these rates have increased numerous times. The Times currently pays $300 to $450 for weekday puzzles and $1,000 to $1,200 for Sundays. These are by far the best rates of any open market for puzzles, but they still don't truly reflect the time, effort and skill involved in producing high-quality work.

Letter Colors in the Crossword

The letter colors that appear in the Crossword indicate the following: Black - Letters entered in the default pen mode. Gray - Letters entered in pencil mode. Blue - Letters that have been confirmed with Check.

For both app and online, select the pencil icon to switch from one mode to the other. Letters entered in the default pen mode are black, while letters entered in pencil mode are gray. Select the pencil icon (so it's highlighted) to solve in pencil mode.

Twister is a game of physical skill produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves Games USA. It is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor or ground. The mat has four rows of six large colored circles on it with a different color in each row: red, yellow, green and blue.

What are crossword hints called? ›

Clue: A crossword clue is a hint that the solver must decipher to find the answer that is then entered into the puzzle grid. Clues are not necessarily dictionary definitions; they can involve puns, anagrams and other types of wordplay.

Our next type of clue is the charade, one of the most common varieties in Cryptic World. Like in a game of charades, each word or phrase in the clue represents another little piece of the answer, presumably in a misleading way, and you stitch them together to get a result.

South Florida is the only place you can find both animals in the wild. To distinguish the two, alligators have a more U-shaped snout while crocodiles have a more pointed or V-shaped one. In addition, alligators are black, while crocodiles are usually a lighter grayish brown.

Everglades National Park is also the only place in the world where Alligators coexist with Crocodiles. In fact, the Everglades is the only place in the United States where one can see Crocodiles. It is the mixture of freshwater from Lake Okeechobee and saltwater from the ocean that makes this dual existence possible.

Crocodiles and alligators belong to a group of reptiles called crocodilians, which are the largest of the living reptiles. Of the 23 different species of crocodilians in the world, 2 species are native to the United States, and south Florida is the only place where both of these species coexist.

The daily puzzles are arranged in graded difficulty from Monday (easiest) through Saturday (hardest). The Sunday puzzle, which is larger—typically 21x21, vs 15x15 for the daily—is said to have a difficulty equivalent to about Thursday.

Monday is the easiest and Saturday is the hardest, with Sunday puzzles being larger and having the difficulty of about a Thursday puzzle. The biggest jump in difficulty is from Tuesday and Wednesday as the words get longer and longer and the clues get trickier. Hope this helps.

The New York Times Crossword increases in difficulty from Monday to Saturday. The Sunday puzzle is approximately on the same difficulty level as the Wednesday or Thursday puzzle, and is larger than other daily puzzles.

Starting today, we'll publish a challenging puzzle every Monday, a moderately challenging puzzle every Tuesday, and a beginner-friendly puzzle every Wednesday. These full-size crosswords will usually be themeless, but we'll run the occasional themed puzzle for special issues and events.