My wife and I normally do the NYT crossword by casting my phone onto our living room TV. It normally provides something called “party mode” where more of the clues are visible on-screen and displayed in a landscape view.

But over the last week we have been unable to access this view. It is just showing my phone screen as it normally would in portrait view.

Does anyone know why this may be? I don’t believe I changed anything in my settings.

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I've been annoyed for a while that it's nearly impossible to print the formatted, ink-saver PDF crossword from the NYT website or app from the iPhone (especially) or iPad. So, I set up this Apple Shortcut to fetch the ink-saver PDF for whichever day you select (it defaults to today's date).

You can use the link below to import the Shortcut into your Shortcuts app. Then, you can add a button to it to your iPhone/iPad/Mac home screen or dock.

Just click the button, confirm the date, and the browser will load the PDF, ready for you to print.

It probably works best if you're already logged in to NYT crosswords in your browser so that the credentials are cached, but you don't need to do that very often. The credentials should stay active for months and months in my experience.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5fdf8d7f8a83470281c115bc9d7afc1c

What it does:

1. Takes your input date (defaults to today)
2. Uses the date to look up the JSON definition of that day's crossword to get its ID
3. Constructs the URL using the date's crossword ID to get the formatted "ink-saver" PDF.

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Anybody know of a good crossword app for apple devices? The only good one Ive found is the New York Times Puzzle app. I had the USA Today but it was a terrible annoying app so deleted it. Would like to find a second one, preferablly from a newspaper. Thanks.

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What are these easy crosswords that aren’t a full grid called? When I look up ones that aren’t a full grid I see mostly variant international puzzle types but this isn’t really that. This is from the newspaper Le Petit 3 — the clues are all taken from articles in the paper.

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Can someone explain the revealer of today’s crossword to me? I just blindly guessed the theme words today because I couldn’t figure it out.

Anyone know where I can get challenging puzzles regularly? I've been doing the newsday saturday stumper for a while now as my weekly hard puzzle but its $75/month and cant really justify paying that much for one puzzle as I dont really use newsday for anything else.

Hi all! I’m a puzzle fan working on something for crossword lovers, and I’d really value input from people who actually solve.

I’m curious what you love about crossword books and what drives you crazy about them. Too easy, too hard, tiny print, repetitive clues, bad binding?

It’s a short anonymous survey (about 2 minutes): Survey

I’ll post a summary of what everyone said once the results are in. And feel free to vent in the comments too; I’m reading everything! 🧩

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Hey guys, just wanted to come on here to see if there are on recommendations for a newbie like me. My time today was 27 minutes and I just am a bit disappointed. I’m 20 and literally just started getting into crosswords, so I know it’ll take some time before I start getting my times down.

Besides just doing more crosswords do yall have anything specific that you do to decrease solve time? Also how much do you think it’s just an IQ filter—I’m curious as to the consensus on that is.

I am not a native English speaker but I like solving crosswords and try my best. This time though I just do not understand the answer. I found this one in The Atlantic 10/8/26.