How the Expanded Crossword Name Database helps decolonize the puzzle. By Erica Hsiung Wojcik Crossword puzzles have an inclusivity problem. In the past decade, people in the puzzle community have ...

Puzzle writer Matt Jones, shown here in a provided photo, has been making crossword puzzles for almost 30 years. His first published crossword appeared in The New York Times when he was just 19. Matt ...

The first question asked of many crossword makers: “Do you write the clues first?” To help explain why that wouldn’t make sense, Slate’s Mike Vuolo, an occasional crossword writer for the New York ...

You might be an avid crossword solver, but have you ever thought about what it takes to create them? Matt Jones has been making crossword puzzles since his late teens, with one of his first puzzles ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Natan Last is making a crossword puzzle. “The theme,” he says as he opens his laptop, “is Dr. Seuss books” — in particular “Yertle the Turtle,” “Green Eggs and Ham” and “Horton ...

PITTSFIELD — You could say Michelle Arnot has made her life in a series of boxes. Specifically, the boxes that hold weight in Arnot’s life are the kind you find arranged in a grid at the back of a ...