Was it scary to knock on all those Marines’ doors? What was it like to report in Iraq? Is it still possible for any Marines to face consequences for what happened in Haditha? The In the Dark ...

When The New Yorker débuted a weekly crossword puzzle, back in 2018, we hoped that it would give our readers an outlet for “pleasurable procrastination.” Six years (and possibly a few missed ...

Some clues have been edited for clarity. Subscribers can find explanations of the original puzzle’s answers in our archive. Published in the print edition of the August 16, 1999, issue ...

Trip Payne is a senior editor of the app Crosswords with Friends. His first nationally published puzzle appeared in Games magazine, in 1983. This five-part series, which includes this three-part ...

Some clues have been edited for clarity. Subscribers can find explanations of the original puzzle’s answers in our archive. Published in the print edition of the October 12, 1998, issue ...