

Five winners will be chosen to receive a year's subscription to the print newspaper, and 50 more will get a crossword book signed by Times puzzle-editing legend Will Shortz. A crossword column written by Deb Amlen, Caitlin Lovinger and Sam Corbin.

The completed puzzle reveals a phrase, and those who find it should send that phrase to the specified email address. We're going to say this puzzle takes hold of those who attempt it and pulls a 256 Across, aka, "Turns inside out." And if you're easily frazzled, you might consider 56 Across, "Stay away from." But we're going to go with 145 Across, a four-letter word for "posterior." As in "this crossword is a true pain in the four-letter-word for posterior."īut for those who can get through it, there's a chance for a prize. Ha ha ha ha boo hoo hoo hoo, hour and a half, indeed. I noticed something unusual in the published answers for Let X In my copy of the puzzle, the first clue is: 9 F. An elite solver could knock it off in an hour and a half."

We get a lot of questions about how solvers should work on crossword puzzles. "We didn't want it too hard because it's so crazily big. Solve the Super Mega Crossword any way you want. New York Times puzzles get progressively harder as the week goes on, and "the difficulty level for this puzzle is from Tuesday or Wednesday, verging into a Thursday," Longo said.
