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What does rebus mean in NYT crossword? ›

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

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.

A final note: The equal sign works for the Down entry as well. The answer to the clue “How peers should be treated” is AS [=], or AS EQUALS.

“Pause to play?” is a break in the school day when the students are allowed to have RECESS.

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.

Force = f, n. Former = ex. Fort = ft. French = fr.

Navigate to the Archive tab at the bottom of the Games app homepage. Select either The Crossword or The Mini. Select the month and year you would like to see puzzles from.

Although not present in all crossword types, circles are typically placed around letter squares in crosswords to refer to squares that will form part of a theme. After solving the crossword, the circled letters can be combined together to spell a word associated with the theme, or name the theme itself.

"What goes up must come down," e.g.

The answer is axiom.

What's tolerated by every body nyt? ›

Tricky Clues

“What's tolerated by every body?” is TYPE-O blood, because it can be universally donated.

Dream outfit, for short? The answer is PJs.

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.

That's because The Mini and Sodoku reset their puzzles at 10:00PM on weekdays, , and 6:00 PM on weekends. This can be extremely misleading as the notion is that there is one puzzle per day, but the puzzles switch before the day is over or sometimes in the middle of the day.

Themes. Every Sunday-Thursday NYT crossword has a theme, something that unites the puzzle's longest answers. Theme answers are always found in symmetrical places in the grid.

A rebus puzzle has one or more squares in the grid containing a multi-letter word that represent a particular picture. For example a puzzle might contain the word crossroads where cross is all in one square. Optionally the square can also represented by a picture, e.g. of a cross.

Click the Rebus button on the toolbar above the clue lists, or simply press Escape (Esc). This will open an expandable square in which you can type multiple characters.

A rebus (/ˈriːbəs/ REE-bəss) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n".

Asterisks, which are also called stars when they are included in crossword clues, are a fairly common feature in puzzles. They typically indicate that the clue and its answer are part of the theme.