Constructor Notes This acrostic celebrates a place of extremes — Antarctica — and a woman who has swum in a variety of extreme environments. In 1987, Lynne Cox became a symbol of thawing Cold ...

ACROSTIC — Today brings the second Times acrostic from David Balton and Jane Stewart. It draws from the 1995 memoir by Barack Obama called “ Dreams From My Father. ” Nineteen ninety-five?

ACROSTIC — Today’s passage, by that paragon of American satire, Mark Twain, originally appeared in The Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper in Virginia City, Nev., on Jan. 1, 1863.

David Balton and Jane Stewart are here to cast a spell on us (and not a curse, let’s hope!). By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — There is something especially suspenseful about solving an acrostic ...

David Balton and Jane Stewart bring us a puzzle that simply can’t sit still for a moment. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Today’s passage is by a member of the American literary canon, Henry ...

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon make order from chaos, as usual. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Today’s puzzle concerns a complex subject and is an appropriately sprawling solve, with clues that ...

David Balton and Jane Stewart provide an endearing, confessional puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Solving this puzzle made me very nostalgic. It’s a passage by David Sedaris, a writer ...

David Balton and Jane Stewart’s puzzle conceals an inspiring modern verse. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Today’s passage is from the poem, “The Hill We Climb,” which Amanda Gorman wrote ...