NYT Crossword May 18 2024 Answers (5/18/24) - Try Hard Guides (2024)

FAQs

What is the hardest day for the NYT crossword? ›

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 as difficult as a Thursday puzzle.

Cryptic clues are followed by a number or numbers in parentheses indicating the length of the answer: (5) means it's a five-letter word, while (2,3,4) indicates a three-word phrase like “in the know.”

You can play the New York Times Crossword puzzle at nytimes.com/games, in the The New York Times Games app (iOS and Android), and in the Play tab of the New York Times News app.

Each daily mini is available for players the evening before the puzzle's publish date. Weekday and Saturday puzzles are available at 10 p.m. EST the previous day. Sunday puzzles are available at 6 p.m. EST on Saturday.

The Saturday crossword is actually the hardest puzzle of the week. 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.

A renowned British crossword maker called Marc Breman created in 2018 what's thought to be the world's hardest cryptic crossword to date. Not only are the clues fiendishly hard, but the crossword itself is rather large, with 64 clues.

The brackets usually indicate an indirect reference.

Gym – PE (Physical Education) or PT (Physical Training)

Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday puzzles are midweek difficulty, not the hardest. Mondays have the most straightforward clues and Saturday clues are the most vague or involve the most wordplay.

As you work through puzzles, you'll find that boxes call for multiple letters—these are known as Rebus clues. To enter more than one letter into a single box, tap the More or … key, tap Rebus, and then enter your letters.

Are crosswords good for your brain? ›

In fact, studies have shown that solving crossword puzzles on a regular basis can help improve your working memory, short-term memory, and overall brain health.

Archives. Select the Archives tab to play daily and mini Crosswords from the past.

A rebus in a crossword is a specific square in which multiple letters should be input to form part of the solution. For example a player may see squares for 5-letters to be input, but the final square could contain a word or multiple letters instead of just one letter.

A rebus can be a letter, a number or a symbol that represents a word, but in many crosswords, the rebus will be a word or group of letters that needs to be written inside a single square.

It's just above 10

The answer is jack.

Our difficulty scale increases through the week, with the easiest puzzles on Monday and hardest on Saturday. Sunday puzzles should reflect midweek difficulty levels. Clues should be fresh, colorful and precise.

Monday is the easiest and Saturday is the hardest, with Sunday puzzles being larger and having the difficulty of about a Thursday puzzle. The biggest jump in difficulty is from Tuesday and Wednesday as the words get longer and longer and the clues get trickier. Hope this helps.