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“That crossword mainstays such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal are largely written, edited, fact-checked, and test-solved by older white men dictates what makes it into the 15×15 grid and what’s kept out,” Natan Last wrote in a March 2020 article for the Atlantic entitled “The Hidden Bigotry of Crosswords.” Last is a crossword constructor for the New York Times and The New Yorker. Exclusion of Diverse Constructors and CluesĪccording to an April 2020 Vice article by Samantha Cole, “New York Times Crossword Constructors Are Fighting Against its Systemic Bias,” the New York Times crosswords, considered by many to be the gold standard of cruciverbalism (the construction of crossword puzzles), “often seem targeted at imagined solvers who are older white males.” The pattern of exclusion has, however, prompted pushback which provides hope for the growth of a new generation of diverse and mindful crossword enthusiasts. For such a seemingly harmless and amusing pursuit, the modern mainstream crossword puzzle has an extensive record of excluding the voices of people of color, women and the LGBTQ community, as well as employing dated or offensive terminology. If it wasn’t for the fact that I enjoy the puzzles, I wouldn’t use this app in a heartbeat.For many people, solving crossword puzzles is a fun and lighthearted activity, perhaps accompanied by breakfast or Sunday brunch. After you look at the errors, then you have to go back in and turn that toggle off or it will show errors on any future puzzles as you solve them if you make a mistake. When you’re finished with the puzzle and you want to find any errors, you have to toggle a switch. If you have a clue that has five boxes and you fill in the last two it should automatically go back up to the first empty box in the word. The moves from square to square within the app are ridiculous also. That’s just the beginning of the hideous design.

With the USA app, anytime you leave the puzzle, you have to go back in and go through several menu selections to get back into the puzzle. You can use the app off-line and you don’t need to have an Internet connection to use it. They need to study the New York Times crossword app and come up with something like that. I love the USA Today crosswords, but this app is absolutely hideous to use. It’s about right for me now, being a crossword newbie, but I feel like I might outgrow them in less than the timeframe of the one year subscription I purchased. In difficulty, they’re roughly equal to a bit easier than an NYT Monday puzzle. The puzzles themselves are pretty good but there can be a lot of word repetition from day to day.

#Older usa today crosswords archive

I have to force close the app and restart it, then go though the slow multi-step process to get to a puzzle from the archive again. The keyboard acts like it’s working but no letters appear. After I’ve completed a puzzle, if a start a second, more often than not I can’t type in the boxes. Loading the puzzle archive takes forever, and it defaults to showing all puzzles instead of unplayed ones, so you have to select the option for only unplayed puzzles and then wait forever a second time. This makes navigating the puzzle very frustrating, especially when there doesn’t seem to be any logic behind what clue you end up on after completing one.

#Older usa today crosswords update

The most recent update removes the previous and next arrows to jump between clues. See the app's settings for more details and customer service contact information. Subscriptions are charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and automatically renew, unless turned off in your iTunes account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. In-app purchases are available for subscriptions.

#Older usa today crosswords download

The USA TODAY Crossword app is free to download and play.