Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for! A bite-sized version of the New York Times’ well ...

Movie with a sequel subtitled “Pig in the City”: four letters.

These are the forehead slappers of crossword clues. The puzzle maker and the editor are playing around with words and phrases in a clue like this, so free your mind up and think about other ways ...

it’s free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you’ll need the app to tackle the archive. One good tactic with crossword puzzles ...

With a split word theme such as this, it's best if the split is either the same in all theme answers, or different in each one. Thank you, Jake, for this excellent puzzle.

You can play the current day's Mini Crossword for free, but you'll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.

This project aims to make it easier to focus on solving the problem. To prepare for a new puzzle, run the setup script to create a per-day copy of the template.py file and create empty sample files.