New York magazine

Puzzles and competitions

New York magazine has long run literary competitions and distinctive crossword puzzles. For the first year of the magazine's existence, the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim contributed an extremely complex cryptic crossword to every third issue. Sondheim eventually ceded the job in order to write his next musical, and Richard Maltby, Jr. took over. For many years the magazine also syndicated The Times of London's cryptic crossword.