The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, March 10, 2024

March 10, 2024

Trip Payne is a senior editor of the app Crosswords with Friends. His first nationally published puzzle appeared in Games magazine, in 1983.

Crossword

Our delightfully devious cryptic is back. Here’s how to solve it.

By Nicholas Henriquez and Liz Maynes-Aminzade

Cryptic Crossword

Soft rocks left in dilapidated shack (6).

By Paolo Pasco

Cryptic Crossword

Teaches Egyptian boy king essentials of Norse (6).

By Lily Geller

The Weekend Essay

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

By Ted Chiang