To read about crossword puzzles in the modern age, click here. Answers for NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD EDITOR WILL crossword clue. Hayley Gold/The Chronicle (TC): A lot of newspapers are folding right now and the budget for puzzle space is often going down.
Will Shortz (WS): There are lots of answers to that. First of all for the New York Times the crossword is a source of profit. Everyone knows that the puzzles are an attraction for the newspaper. Lots of people subscribe to The New York Times and other newspapers specifically for the puzzle and it's a fairly inexpensive feature. It costs $39.95 a year to subscribe to the crossword.įor The Times, the crossword is the only same-day editorial matter in the newspaper that the website charges for. More than 50,000 people have subscribed to the puzzle this way. So that's a lot of money for the newspaper. There are book reprints and The New York Times' crossword books are about the best selling crossword books in the country. 11 Sam Ezersky, assistant editor of puzzles at The New York Times, demonstrates CrossFire, the computer. TC: For other papers though that's not the case, right? And all that money, all the reprints, flow to The Times, so the crossword is a very successful and profitable feature for the newspaper. The crossword editor, Will Shortz, announces new rates for crossword constructors. The New York Times is the only newspaper that is able to charge for its crossword. But crosswords, I think, are one of the most important things that keep people coming to newspapers. I say that because you can get your news anywhere. TC: As far as crosswords going purely digital… It's faster and simpler to read your news online than it is in the newspaper unless your newspaper brings some special feature to the news. WS: With a crossword and other pencil puzzles, it's generally better and more convenient to solve on paper.
There are lots of people doing crossword online now, but you can see all the clues at once when you are doing a crossword on paper, you can move around the grid more easily. So crosswords and pencil puzzles are one of the things that newspapers do better than any other medium, and that includes online. So this is a feature for newspapers and that's why some newspapers are running more than one crossword per day. A lot of newspapers nowadays have two, and on Sunday maybe three, crosswords for different skill levels and different styles. Do you think they'll be popular considering that doing it by hand is a preferred method? TC: There have also been crossword apps coming out for Smartphones and things like that. WS: There are lots of people who are doing the crossword, solving the crossword online and with the apps. I think those are in addition to what's going on in newspapers.
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