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The king of trivia. Well find out. From astoria, new york, please welcome tony hightower. [cheers and applause] whats up, tony . Pleasure to meet you, pleasure. This is great. [sighs] 2,000. Well, this is over the course of a decade. Its not beeni didnt do them all, like, this last week or anything. Still, thats quite a lot. And youre no stranger to the millionaire stage, i hear. That is also true. Last year, i was here as the plus one of ken jennings. That dummy. Yeah. Yeah, the tv trivia legen...

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Andy Kravis heard you liked puzzles, so he put a puzzle on your puzzle.

Get a Load of This! The J.A.S.A. constructing class asks the important questions, ably assisted by Andy Kravis and Natan Last. Katie Reynolds pulled clothing from a commercial dryer at a Maytag laundromat in Mount Prospect, Ill.Credit...Tim Boyle, via Getty Images May 12, 2021 THURSDAY PUZZLE — Yes, hi there. Did you solve this entire puzzle without understanding the theme? Well, you just come here and sit down here next to me. Because I didn’t understand it either at first. I did, however,...

February 14, 2020But can crossword puzzles really affect a news organization’s bottom line? There’s evidence to suggest the answer is yes. Publishers have found that the number of active days a reader has on their site is a telling metric for determining whether or not they’ll continue a subscription. Encouraging readers to develop a crossword habit may help. At The Wall Street Journal, for example, a team looking to increase subscribers’ active days found that playing a puzzle had a m...

Where Edelweiss Grows David Harris makes his New York Times Crossword debut in a collaboration with Evan Kalish. Edelweiss flowers grow on rocky terrain in the Tyrolean Alps near Hinterbichl, Austria. It is a rare plant that has a deep tradition in local folk and national alpine cultures.Credit...Sean Gallup, via Getty Images WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — A game within a game! How meta. I love it. David Harris has been a member of the indie crossword and solving community for a long time, and today he m...

They Might Click on a Dance Floor Natan Last, Andy Kravis and the members of the JASA crossword constructing class bring us together over a very clever theme. The Spanish flamenco dancer Carolina Morgado held castanets as she performed at the citadel of Erbil, the northern Iraqi city and capital of the semiautonomous Kurdish region, in 2019.Credit...SAFIN HAMED/AFP, via Getty Images Jan. 19, 2021 WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — An administrivial alert regarding the comments system: Thank you for your pati...

A Slow Day at the Restaurant Billy Ouska makes his New York Times Crossword debut, with plenty to spare. A waiter laid a table ahead of a reception on the 35th floor of the Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard in 2014 in London.Credit...Dan Kitwood, via Getty Images Dec. 23, 2020 THURSDAY PUZZLE — I’m really enjoying all these new voices in the Crossword. That doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate our veteran constructors, but I see it as similar to the Scouts song “Make New Friends”: “Ma...