Grasped Nyt Crossword Clue (2025)

FAQs

What is the hardest day New York Times crossword puzzle clue? ›

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty.

Completion of the puzzle is represented with different colored stars. Gold Stars reflect the number of consecutive puzzles solved before midnight EST on the publication date without using Check or Reveal. Blue Stars are puzzles that were solved but do not qualify as part of a streak.

Look for short-answer words first as well.

Take a look at your crosswords grid to see what clues are short answers (three to five letter words). The shorter answers will be easier to fill in, as there are only a certain number of logical letter combinations that can fit into the spaces.

In crosswords, that usually means that the answer to the dashed clue is the continuation of another entry. In today's puzzle, it's the end of the previous entry. Now take a closer look at the grid and you will see the complete answers, with black squares splitting up the P's on either side of them.

In the iconic New York Times puzzle, OREO wasn't used to reference the cookie until 1993, despite its invention in 1912. OREO has three of the five most used letters in crosswords, making it an easy word for puzzle constructors to fit with other words.

What is the acceptance rate when submitting a crossword puzzle to the NYT? - Quora. The acceptance rate is between 4% and 7%. Anecdotally Will Shortz has said that as of 2009, he receives over a hundred puzzles per week.

What is a Rebus in a Crossword Puzzle? According to The New York Times crosswords editor, Will Shortz, “A 'rebus' in a crossword is anything that gets entered in a square that's not a single letter of the alphabet.” That can mean you have to jam more than one letter into a square or use digits.

For example – EG (e.g., short for the Latin exempli gratia)

What sends incessant messages to the nyt? ›

Sends incessant messages to

The answer is spams.

It's just above 10

The answer is jack.

If you find multiple words that could potentially be a solution, try using the pencil button to allow you to enter words in a gray color, signifying that it is just a placeholder. However if required by a special puzzle, you can use the “rebus” button to enter more than one letter into a square.

The letters that will appear in the circles when the Answers are written in spell out words related to the puzzle's theme. the letters in squares that contain circles spell out words related to the theme either when read consecutively or when rearranged to form theme-related words.

Pen and Pencil Modes

For both app and online, select the pencil icon to switch from one mode to the other. Letters entered in the default pen mode are black, while letters entered in pencil mode are gray. Select the pencil icon (so it's highlighted) to solve in pencil mode.

Mondays have the most straightforward clues and Saturday clues are the hardest, or involve the most wordplay. Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday puzzles are midweek difficulty, not the hardest. They're just bigger. A typical Monday clue will be very straightforward and drive you almost directly to the answer.

It's not a science. It's an art. If you do the puzzle on a daily basis through the week, the Wednesday may not always be harder than Tuesday, Thursday may not always be harder than Wednesday. But if you do the puzzle long enough, the trend shows that it does get harder as the week goes on.”

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The answer is acing.