Puzzle solutions for Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023 (2024)

FAQs

Are Sunday puzzles the hardest? ›

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.

You can also get to puzzles via the “Top stories” summary page at the front of the edition, which shows all the puzzles in a single view.

12d. [Like a trenchcoat or mushroom]. TAUPE. I get that a lot of trench coats are tan-ish, but I can't see saying that mushrooms are all TAUPE in color.

Sort By Color

This is an especially helpful strategy for solving a puzzle with lots of pieces. Start by sorting pieces into piles by similar colors; start broadly, making subdivisions as you go to match more specific hues, patterns, and images.

For a 500-piece puzzle, the solving time range is between 2 and 7 hours, with an average solving time of 4 hours. A 1,000-piece puzzle has a solving time range of 5 to 12 hours and an average solving time of 9 hours. This kind of time of time is our preference.

In Quintagram, the role of the grid is taken by a matrix containing all the letters of the answers jumbled together and arranged in alphabetical order. As used letters are crossed out, the bank of available letters is reduced, thus assisting the solver with the remaining clues.

The Times Puzzles: Crosswords, Sudoku and more. The Times & The Sunday Times.

Sable is a fluffy little animal known for its silky dark brown fur. It's native to Japan, Siberia, and other parts of northern Asia. You may meet up with a sable in a zoo or as somebody's expensive coat. Sable is a kind of marten — the same family as skunks, wolverines, and minks.

Sphynx Cat

Hairless cats, in general, will have large ears, and the Sphynx is no different.

What mushroom is also known as Penny Bun crossword? ›

The Penny Bun, Cep, Porcini, King Bolete, Boletus edulus. One of the stars of the mushroom world.

The Clearly Impossible Puzzle is uniquely designed to be one of the hardest puzzles you will ever complete (if you can). We have multiple piece variations that is suitable for any type of puzzler. The larger the puzzle the more complicated it is.

Modern Tricky Puzzles

The puzzles in this category are considered tricky and difficult because they have one single pattern/color across the whole puzzle, or there are solid color sections that are difficult to solve. The most typical themes you'll see in this range are nature puzzles and space puzzles.

The difficulty of a given puzzle is usually relative to the person solving it. We rate our puzzles on a scale of 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest) based on our own experience solving them and our observations of how others solve them.

The daily puzzles are arranged in graded difficulty from Monday (easiest) through Saturday (hardest). The Sunday puzzle, which is larger—typically 21x21, vs 15x15 for the daily—is said to have a difficulty equivalent to about Thursday.