The admission did little to assuage the displeasure of crossword enthusiasts on the app. <\/p>\n
\u201cCan you please post the correct clues somewhere online, for Free ?? I\u2019ve already paid $6 (as I have Every Sun since 1980) I only keep the Magazine & give the paper away so the corrected list on pg 25 is of no use & by the time I can get back to the store they\u2019ll be sold out,\u201d wrote one person<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another noted they spent far too long on a puzzle that was ultimately unsolvable. <\/p>\n \u201cI eventually gave up on the gimmick,\u201d they explained<\/a>. \u201cI filled in all the squares but didn\u2019t bother to be precise. Got \u2018last gasp\u2019, but didn\u2019t bother with the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n The Times\u2019 crossword puzzle was first printed in Februart 1942, approximately 30 years after such games gained popularity in the United States. The decision to add a puzzle<\/a> to the paper appeared to be in part to give the nation something fun to think about after the December 1941 bombings at Pearl Harbor; the Sunday puzzle is now something of a mainstay in homes across the country.<\/p>\n \u201cWe ought to proceed with the puzzle, especially in view of the fact that it is possible that there will now be bleak blackout hours \u2014 or if not that, then certainly a need for relaxation of some kind or other,\u201d wrote Sunday editor Lester Markel at the time. \u201cWe ought not to try to do anything essentially different from what is now being done \u2014 except to do it better.\u201d<\/p>\n In the 1990s, there were around 500 people who could be called upon to put together a good crossword puzzle. They were lawyers, professors, and housewives as well; at the time, an article by Richard F. Shepard said the only requirements were that they had \u201cthe talents of a poet and punster \u2014 limited only by the bounds of a good standard dictionary \u2014 and a willingness to keep it clean and tactful.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2018 the Times announced it had over 400,000 subscribers to the crossword alone. Since then, the paper has added games including Worldle, Connections, Spelling Bee, and several version of the crossword to its app, and at least 9 million people have a subscription<\/a> that allows them access. <\/p>\n
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