The Wilco leader wrote the paper’s May bonus puzzle, with clue nods to Bill Callahan, guitars, and Queens College graduates.

Across eight-plus decades and down to the present day, RENO keeps appearing in the New York Times crossword. Here's why it's so commonly used.

I sensed I was joining a great lineage of fountain-pen-toting crossword solvers: Leonard Bernstein, Frank Sinatra and Queen Elizabeth II all supposedly enjoyed both pens and puzzles. The crossword, it turns out,

The Wilco frontman’s sprawling new solo triple album is pure Tweedy: ambivalent and unknowable and funny and compelling. It is the thing he was always ramping up to. Pete Crow-Armstrong drilled a two-run shot in the ninth to force an extra inning on Wednesday night.

Today's Wordle answer on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, is PLUME. -If you missed it, catch up with the answer to yesterday’s Wordle. This story was originally published by Parade on May 6, 2026, where it first appeared in the Life section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

Mark Diehl gambles on a return to the Sunday puzzle after a long absence.

For the first time in its 84-year history, the New York Times accidentally published an unsolvable grid.