Upstate Ny Engineering School Crossword (2024)

FAQs

What is the hardest crossword day in the New York Times? ›

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.

There's no better boost to your solving ego than filling in a few entries right off the bat. You can confirm whether an answer is right by solving the entries that cross it. Fill-in-the-blank clues tend to be easier because they have definite answers. For example, a clue might be “Winnie-the-___.”

Tricky Clues

The “Upstate N.Y. campus” is R.I.T., short for the Rochester Institute of Technology, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, is in Rochester, N.Y.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known familiarly as R.P.I., is a university located in Troy, N.Y., and is known primarily for its engineering and technology programs.

(The Times offers the industry's highest rates – up to $750 for a weekday puzzle, and up to $2,250 for a Sunday – and authors are credited.) Every day Shortz and his colleagues choose submissions, factcheck and tweak them, then send them to test solvers.

The Times Crossword has been baffling, infuriating, challenging and delighting its devotees for close on 75 years. Over this period of time it has become, quite deservedly, the world's most famous crossword. It is, quite simply, The Times Crossword.

I got rejected probably 15, 16-plus times — it's about a 3 percent acceptance rate to get published there. They get 200 submissions a week for seven spots. Eventually, last year, they accepted the Monday puzzle, which ran in August. And then, in October, they wrote back, and we worked on this Sunday puzzle together.

The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases that cross each other, by solving clues in the Across and Down columns which lead to the answers. The New York Times Crossword increases in difficulty from Monday to Saturday.

The term was coined by Hasbro in 1964 to market G.I. Joe to boys (while competitors called similar offerings boy's dolls).

What are the circled squares in the NYT crossword? ›

The circled squares, in almost every case, aren't confined to one entry the way they often are when they reveal a word hidden within another word or phrase. For example there's a cluster of them in the lower right corner, at the ends of four down entries.

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.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (/rɛnsəˈlɪər/; RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut.

Chestnut/Sorrel

Chestnut horses have a red bodies, manes and tails. In the Western disciplines you'll commonly hear chestnuts called “sorrel,” with the term “chestnut” being reserved for the darker brown-red coats.

The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases that cross each other, by solving clues in the Across and Down columns which lead to the answers. The New York Times Crossword increases in difficulty from Monday to Saturday.

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. Try to be original, and inject humor where possible.

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 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.