One good tactic with crossword puzzles is to try to get as many ACROSS as possible first and then you’ll find a lot of the DOWN are already done—or vice versa if the ones ACROSS are trickier.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) seized a boatload of cocaine worth over $11 million after intercepting a vessel off the coast of Puerto Rico. The estimated ...

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SHOWSTOPPERS: The last word of each theme answer (the "STOPPER," in a way) is the name of a Broadway SHOW: GREASE, HAMILTON, and CATS.

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as ...

Hampus Lindholm knows the buzz about the Bruins backline is that it features a boatload of behemoths. However, the 6-foot-4-inch, 223-pound Lindholm is just as excited about the mobility of these ...

that she has abandoned a boatload of her earlier policy choices. Worse, when she is given chances to explain the shifts, she not only doesn’t reveal her thinking but says her values haven’t ...

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Today’s metapuzzle says that we are looking for a famous band. Nothing is explicitly marked as a theme entry, so let’s look at the longest answers since those are most likely to be important ...