The Crossword

Learn about how to access and play The Fresh York Times Crossword.

A subscription to The Fresh York Times Crossword gives you access to the daily puzzle online and in our iPhone and iPad apps, as well as access to all puzzles in our archive. Acrostics and multiplicity puzzles are also available, but only on the web.

You can subscribe to The Crossword here or by selecting Subscribe online or in the app.

There is a free trial period of seven days in the app. After that, you can play two selected crosswords from our archive (updated weekly) for free online. You can also play the Mini Puzzle (updated daily) in the app. Several other games are also available for free online, including sudoku and KenKen puzzles. Curated Puzzle Packs are also available for individual purchase.

Yes. You can link your account inbetween the app and the website, and we encourage you to do so. You can work on the same puzzle via your day from different devices and the web and have a finish record of puzzles youвЂ™ve solved wherever you go.

If you subscribed online, go to Account Settings in the app and tap Log In/Create. Type in the email address and password associated with your subscription and tap Log In.

Go to the Account Settings page in the app (under the iconВ icon in the top right corner of the front page) and tap Log In. You can create a free NYTimes.com account if you don’t already have one. If you subscribed via the web, type in the email address and password associated with your subscription and tap Log In. You should now have access to the puzzles in the app and on the web, and your puzzle progress should sync inbetween the two.

If you subscribed through iTunes, you’ll need to link your subscription to NYTimes.com to enable web access. To do this, after logging in/creating an account as specified above, tap Restore Purchases and, if prompted to do so, come in your Apple ID and password. Please note, you must log in using the Apple ID which purchased the app. Ultimately, tap the Connect Account button. Your NYTimes.com account should now have total crossword entitlements and can be used to access your subscription on the web or in the app on another device without having to Restore Purchases (pack purchases are iOS-only and cannot be linked to your NYTimes.com account at this time. If you have purchased packs, you will still have to Restore Purchases to access them on another device).

Puzzle Packs are curated collections of puzzles from our archive available in our app. Each Puzzle Pack is centered around a theme. Purchased packs emerge in My Packs.

Note: Puzzle Packs are not presently available on our website.

Access to our puzzle archive requires a subscription. To view the accomplish archive in the app, tap Calendar from the main screen. You can then tap on the date at the top of the calendar screen to navigate through puzzles by month and year. To view the accomplish archive online, click the Archive tab at the top of the main crossword page.

The NYTimes Crossword app works on any device with iOS Five.1.1 or later. If iOS Five.1.1 is not available for your device, you can proceed to use the older version of the app. However, we will not be able to suggest you technical support, and you will be incapable to renew your subscription when it finishes.

Go to your Account Settings. Come in your email address and password, then tap Log In.

Yes. As long as you have downloaded a puzzle, you can solve it while offline.

Note: You will need to restore your network connection to sync your progress with your other devices and the web.

Each daily puzzle is available the evening before it emerges in the newspaper. On weekdays, the puzzle is available at ten p.m. Eastern time. On weekends (Saturday and Sunday, for Sunday and MondayвЂ™s puzzles), the puzzle is available at six p.m. Eastern time.

To receive alerts on your device when the newest daily puzzle is available, enable thrust notifications.

The weekly multitude puzzles are available on NYTimes.com the Thursday before appearing in the Sunday magazine. The monthly bonus puzzles are available online on the very first day of the month.

The daily puzzles increase in difficulty from Monday to Saturday. The Sunday puzzle, while larger than the others, is approximately as difficult as the Wednesday or the Thursday puzzle.

To view the archive in the app, tap Calendar from the main screen. Puzzles you have not yet downloaded have down arrow icons. To download them, tap on the icons. To learn more, please see What do the icons in the archive mean?

Note: The calendar is not available during your free trial or when you are not logged in to your account.

Please see the following list for the meanings of the puzzle icons:

This puzzle is unavailable right now.

A fresh puzzle is available.

This puzzle has not been downloaded.

This puzzle has been downloaded, but you have not began solving it.

You have correctly solved this puzzle.

You have correctly solved this puzzle, and it qualifies for a streak.

You have correctly solved this puzzle, and it qualifies for a streak. However, you have not downloaded it to your device.

This represents a streak (which can be as few as two days).

You have ended this puzzle incorrectly.

The amount of blue squares in the puzzle photo corresponds to your puzzle progress.

You can print puzzles by accessing the crossword from your browser on your desktop or phone (there is no printing function on the iOS app). You can also download PUZ files which can be opened and played in Across Lite (find out more about Across Lite here). There are several areas where you can print:В

a.) Printing TodayвЂ™s Puzzle from the NYTimesВ Crossword Homepage

click on the print icon in the upper right corner to print TodayвЂ™s puzzle section
click on the down arrow to download the PUZ file
If you are a home delivery subscriber, you can print the newspaper version of the last eight days of puzzles through this interface

b.) Printing TodayвЂ™s Puzzle from the Puzzle Page from the desktop browser

click on the print icon in the upper right corner to print TodayвЂ™s puzzle section
click on the down arrow to download the PUZ file

c.) Printing TodayвЂ™s Puzzle from the Puzzle Page from a mobile browser

click on the print icon in the middle left of the screen to print TodayвЂ™s puzzle section
click on the down arrow to download the PUZ file

d.) Printing/downloading other puzzles

Where you see an icon for a specific puzzle (as in the last seven days list on the main page or in the archive calendar view), if you hover over the icon you will see a print and download button show up below the icon

Note: if you are viewing the archive in calendar view on the iPad, the hover buttons do not show up and you should use the archive List View. In the archive List View you can click the word вЂњPuzzleвЂќ to open a PDF for printing or you can click the word вЂњAcross LiteвЂќ to download the PUZ file.

Once you click to print, you will be given the option to print the puzzle, the answers, or in some cases where available, the newspaper version of the puzzle. You can also use the ink saver to make the black squares less dark.

By default, the cursor will skip over squares that are already packed in and stop at the end of each clue. To customize cursor movement, tap the gear icon in the upper right corner of any puzzle.

Note: If you are typing into a square that is already packed, the cursor will always budge to the next square. This way, you can lightly overwrite a word.

For daily puzzles, tap Expose and then Expose All. You can also expose an individual square or word from this menu. For diversity puzzles only available in printed form, the solution is posted on the archive page about a week after the puzzle is released.

You will get a message congratulating you if you solve the puzzle correctly. If the board is downright packed in but you have not received a message, there is at least one incorrect square.

You can use pencil mode to indicate that you are uncertain about an reaction. Letters entered in the default pen mode are black, while letters entered in pencil mode are gray.

When solving a puzzle in the app, tap the pen icon to switch from one mode to the other. When solving a puzzle online, select the pen icon for pen mode and the pencil icon for pencil mode.

Letters entered in the default pen mode are black, while letters entered in pencil mode are gray. Letters that have been confirmed with Check are blue. Letters that have been exposed to be inaccurate with Check are crimson. These will comeback to the default color if you switch an incorrect letter to a fresh one. However, a gray flag will remain on the square. A crimson flag will remain on the square if letters are exposed to be inaccurate with Expose.

A clue will turn gray after you have entered all letters; this applies whether you are right or wrong.

The clock is displayed by default in the app. You can hide it by switching Showcase Clock in the puzzle settings menu to Off. When you visit The Crossword online, you can click Display Clock to display it and Hide to liquidate it. If you clear the entire puzzle, your clock will restart.

There is a separate keyboard in the app for symbols and numbers. To switch to it, tap the button in the lower left corner of your screen.

To switch back to the standard keyboard, tap the ABC button.

Presently, you canвЂ™t switch your user name.

You can view your puzzle statistics with an accompanying bar graph on the My Statistics page.

To access My Statistics, tap the icon in the top left corner of the front page.

Note: You will need version Two.Five.0 or later of the app to view the My Statistics page.

The My Statistics page contains your puzzle statistics (Puzzles Solved, Solve Rate, Current Streak and Longest Streak) with an accompanying bar graph.

The number of Puzzles Solved reflects the number of puzzles solved without using Check or Expose. The Solve Rate is the number of puzzles solved (without using Check or Expose) over the number of puzzles attempted. Streaks reflect the number of consecutive Crossword puzzles solved before midnight on their publication dates (Eastern time) without using Check or Expose.

In the bar graph, the current day features three colored bars. The blue bar indicates your average solve time for this day of the week, the pink bar indicates your solve time for the most latest puzzle solved on this day of the week and the yellow bar indicates your best solve time for this day of the week.

Other days of the week have one blue bar with three colored dots. Blue dots (labeled with A) indicate your average solve time for that day of the week. Pink dots (labeled with T) indicate your solve time for the most latest puzzle ended on that day of the week. Yellow dots (labeled with B) indicate your best solve time for that day of the week.

Please note that using Check or Expose disqualifies that puzzle’s solve time from the Scorecard and from the My Statistics Page.

Some puzzles require two or more letters to be entered into one square. This is called a rebus.

When solving the puzzle online, press Escape on a square. Type in the rebus and then press Inject (or press Escape again to cancel). You can also click elsewhere on the screen to come back to regular mode.

When solving the puzzle in the app, tap Rebus while the square is selected (for iPhone, tap More to access the Rebus key). Tap Rebus again or tap elsewhere on the screen to come back to regular mode.

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts.

You can stir the cursor left, right, up or down with the arrow keys. You can also switch from Across mode to Down mode with the up or down keys and from Down mode to Across mode with the left or right keys. You can hop to the next clue the tab key or to the previous clue with the shift key and the tab key. You can press Escape to come in Rebus mode or Backspace to clear the current square (if packed) or the previous square.

You can also customize the behavior of these keys in Account Settings.

This depends on the device you are using to solve the puzzle. In both the iPhone and iPad apps, you can pinch open to zoom in on the puzzle. In the iPhone app, you can also switch to a Clue View in which clues are introduced in list form. To switch to Clue View, tap the icon in the top right corner of your screen. To switch back to a standard view, tap the icon again.

When solving the puzzle online, you can use your browserвЂ™s built-in zoom feature to increase the size of the puzzle.

If you are having trouble accessing your subscription or Puzzle Packs, go to the Account Settings screen and tap Restore Purchases.

To find out when your subscription will expire, go after the steps below.

Open the App Store on your device.
Tap Featured in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and tab the button with your Apple ID.
Tap View Apple ID.
Inject your Apple ID password and tap OK.
Scroll to Subscriptions and tap Manage.
Tap NYTimes Crossword.

If the date has passed, you will need to resubscribe to The Crossword.

Please note that if you have updated from the previous version of the app, you will need to create a fresh subscription rather than resubscribe.

Yes. You can give a one-year digital Crossword subscription to friends and family.

The Fresh York Times accepts major credit cards and PayPal. Subscriptions are billed every month or every year, depending on your type of subscription. Your subscription will be renewed automatically, and you will be charged in advance of each billing cycle unless you cancel. To prevent interruptions to your service, we also suggest that you verify your credit card information is current in your Purchase History.

Note: If you purchased your subscription through a third-party application, please refer to the relevant terms.

If you purchased your subscription from The Fresh York Times, please call Customer Care at (800) 591-9233. If you purchased your subscription through iTunes, please go after these steps to cancel:

Open the App Store on your device.
Tap Featured in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and tab the button with your Apple ID.
Tap View Apple ID.
Inject your Apple ID password and tap OK.
Scroll to Subscriptions and tap Manage.
Tap NYTimes Crossword.
Under Renewal Options, switch the Auto-Renewal setting to Off.

For details about refunds, please review our Terms of Sale.

Print and digital subscriptions to The Fresh York Times do not include free access to The Crossword. However, they do give you fifty percent off. For more information on subscriptions, please see the Digital Subscriptions FAQ.

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The Crossword

Learn about how to access and play The Fresh York Times Crossword.

A subscription to The Fresh York Times Crossword gives you access to the daily puzzle online and in our iPhone and iPad apps, as well as access to all puzzles in our archive. Acrostics and diversity puzzles are also available, but only on the web.

You can subscribe to The Crossword here or by selecting Subscribe online or in the app.

Yes. You can link your account inbetween the app and the website, and we encourage you to do so. You can work on the same puzzle across your day from different devices and the web and have a accomplish record of puzzles youвЂ™ve solved wherever you go.

If you subscribed online, go to Account Settings in the app and tap Log In/Create. Type in the email address and password associated with your subscription and tap Log In.

If you subscribed through iTunes, you’ll need to link your subscription to NYTimes.com to enable web access. To do this, after logging in/creating an account as specified above, tap Restore Purchases and, if prompted to do so, come in your Apple ID and password. Please note, you must log in using the Apple ID which purchased the app. Eventually, tap the Connect Account button. Your NYTimes.com account should now have total crossword entitlements and can be used to access your subscription on the web or in the app on another device without having to Restore Purchases (pack purchases are iOS-only and cannot be linked to your NYTimes.com account at this time. If you have purchased packs, you will still have to Restore Purchases to access them on another device).

Puzzle Packs are curated collections of puzzles from our archive available in our app. Each Puzzle Pack is centered around a theme. Purchased packs emerge in My Packs.

Note: Puzzle Packs are not presently available on our website.

Access to our puzzle archive requires a subscription. To view the accomplish archive in the app, tap Calendar from the main screen. You can then tap on the date at the top of the calendar screen to navigate through puzzles by month and year. To view the finish archive online, click the Archive tab at the top of the main crossword page.

Go to your Account Settings. Inject your email address and password, then tap Log In.

Yes. As long as you have downloaded a puzzle, you can solve it while offline.

Note: You will need to restore your network connection to sync your progress with your other devices and the web.

To receive alerts on your device when the newest daily puzzle is available, enable shove notifications.

The weekly diversity puzzles are available on NYTimes.com the Thursday before appearing in the Sunday magazine. The monthly bonus puzzles are available online on the very first day of the month.

The daily puzzles increase in difficulty from Monday to Saturday. The Sunday puzzle, while larger than the others, is approximately as difficult as the Wednesday or the Thursday puzzle.

Note: The calendar is not available during your free trial or when you are not logged in to your account.

Please see the following list for the meanings of the puzzle icons:

This puzzle is unavailable right now.

A fresh puzzle is available.

This puzzle has not been downloaded.

This puzzle has been downloaded, but you have not commenced solving it.

You have correctly solved this puzzle.

You have correctly solved this puzzle, and it qualifies for a streak.

You have correctly solved this puzzle, and it qualifies for a streak. However, you have not downloaded it to your device.

This represents a streak (which can be as few as two days).

You have finished this puzzle incorrectly.

The amount of blue squares in the puzzle picture corresponds to your puzzle progress.

a.) Printing TodayвЂ™s Puzzle from the NYTimesВ Crossword Homepage

click on the print icon in the upper right corner to print TodayвЂ™s puzzle section
click on the down arrow to download the PUZ file
If you are a home delivery subscriber, you can print the newspaper version of the last eight days of puzzles through this interface

b.) Printing TodayвЂ™s Puzzle from the Puzzle Page from the desktop browser

click on the print icon in the upper right corner to print TodayвЂ™s puzzle section
click on the down arrow to download the PUZ file

c.) Printing TodayвЂ™s Puzzle from the Puzzle Page from a mobile browser

click on the print icon in the middle left of the screen to print TodayвЂ™s puzzle section
click on the down arrow to download the PUZ file

d.) Printing/downloading other puzzles

Where you see an icon for a specific puzzle (as in the last seven days list on the main page or in the archive calendar view), if you hover over the icon you will see a print and download button emerge below the icon

Note: if you are viewing the archive in calendar view on the iPad, the hover buttons do not emerge and you should use the archive List View. In the archive List View you can click the word вЂњPuzzleвЂќ to open a PDF for printing or you can click the word вЂњAcross LiteвЂќ to download the PUZ file.

By default, the cursor will skip over squares that are already packed in and stop at the end of each clue. To customize cursor movement, tap the gear icon in the upper right corner of any puzzle.

Note: If you are typing into a square that is already packed, the cursor will always stir to the next square. This way, you can lightly overwrite a word.

For daily puzzles, tap Expose and then Expose All. You can also expose an individual square or word from this menu. For multiplicity puzzles only available in printed form, the solution is posted on the archive page about a week after the puzzle is released.

You will get a message congratulating you if you solve the puzzle correctly. If the board is fully packed in but you have not received a message, there is at least one incorrect square.

You can use pencil mode to indicate that you are uncertain about an response. Letters entered in the default pen mode are black, while letters entered in pencil mode are gray.

When solving a puzzle in the app, tap the pen icon to switch from one mode to the other. When solving a puzzle online, select the pen icon for pen mode and the pencil icon for pencil mode.

A clue will turn gray after you have entered all letters; this applies whether you are right or wrong.

The clock is displayed by default in the app. You can hide it by switching Display Clock in the puzzle settings menu to Off. When you visit The Crossword online, you can click Demonstrate Clock to display it and Hide to eliminate it. If you clear the entire puzzle, your clock will restart.

There is a separate keyboard in the app for symbols and numbers. To switch to it, tap the button in the lower left corner of your screen.

To switch back to the standard keyboard, tap the ABC button.

Presently, you canвЂ™t switch your user name.

You can view your puzzle statistics with an accompanying bar graph on the My Statistics page.

To access My Statistics, tap the icon in the top left corner of the front page.

Note: You will need version Two.Five.0 or later of the app to view the My Statistics page.

The My Statistics page contains your puzzle statistics (Puzzles Solved, Solve Rate, Current Streak and Longest Streak) with an accompanying bar graph.

Please note that using Check or Expose disqualifies that puzzle’s solve time from the Scorecard and from the My Statistics Page.

Some puzzles require two or more letters to be entered into one square. This is called a rebus.

When solving the puzzle online, press Escape on a square. Type in the rebus and then press Come in (or press Escape again to cancel). You can also click elsewhere on the screen to comeback to regular mode.

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts.

You can budge the cursor left, right, up or down with the arrow keys. You can also switch from Across mode to Down mode with the up or down keys and from Down mode to Across mode with the left or right keys. You can leap to the next clue the tab key or to the previous clue with the shift key and the tab key. You can press Escape to come in Rebus mode or Backspace to clear the current square (if packed) or the previous square.

You can also customize the behavior of these keys in Account Settings.

When solving the puzzle online, you can use your browserвЂ™s built-in zoom feature to increase the size of the puzzle.

If you are having trouble accessing your subscription or Puzzle Packs, go to the Account Settings screen and tap Restore Purchases.

To find out when your subscription will expire, go after the steps below.

Open the App Store on your device.
Tap Featured in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and tab the button with your Apple ID.
Tap View Apple ID.
Come in your Apple ID password and tap OK.
Scroll to Subscriptions and tap Manage.
Tap NYTimes Crossword.

If the date has passed, you will need to resubscribe to The Crossword.

Please note that if you have updated from the previous version of the app, you will need to create a fresh subscription rather than resubscribe.

Yes. You can give a one-year digital Crossword subscription to friends and family.

Note: If you purchased your subscription through a third-party application, please refer to the relevant terms.

If you purchased your subscription from The Fresh York Times, please call Customer Care at (800) 591-9233. If you purchased your subscription through iTunes, please go after these steps to cancel:

Open the App Store on your device.
Tap Featured in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and tab the button with your Apple ID.
Tap View Apple ID.
Inject your Apple ID password and tap OK.
Scroll to Subscriptions and tap Manage.
Tap NYTimes Crossword.
Under Renewal Options, switch the Auto-Renewal setting to Off.

For details about refunds, please review our Terms of Sale.

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