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Friday, Dec. 5, 2025 | Mini Crossword

By Natan Last | December 5

Today’s Mini Crossword was written by veteran constructor Natan Last ’12, whose puzzles appear bimonthly in The New Yorker. His book, “Across The Universe: The Past, Present and Future of the Crossword Puzzle,” was recently published by Pantheon Books. As an undergraduate, Last served as ...

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The summer after my sophomore year, I interned with Will Shortz, the New York Times crossword puzzle editor. Each day was a surrealist blend of letter and landscape. After a two-hour train ride from my house in Brooklyn, N.Y., to his in Pleasantville in Westchester County, N.Y., I would enter a ball ...

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