By Sam Gross
Welcome to the second edition of the Sunday crossword puzzle from West Side Rag, featuring all-local clues related to the Upper West Side.
Before you dive in, here are a few tips for solving:
- This puzzle is designed to be phone-friendly, but you’ll admittedly have more screen to work with if you play on a computer. The navigation bar above the puzzle also offers the option to Print it out if you’re more of a paper and pencil person.
- If you get stuck, the online version has an Assist button that will let you Reveal or Check a letter, word, or the entire grid. You can also Ask a friend by sending them an invite code and the link to the puzzle.
- All of the clues fit an Upper West Side theme, but crossword fans will notice this means a slightly sprawling grid and fewer intersections between words. We’ll continue working to craft the perfect puzzle that feels local to the neighborhood while offering the right amount of playability.
We’d love your feedback. How’d you make out? Any ideas for future puzzle clues or feedback on how we did? Please let us know in the comments, and feel free to check out last week’s puzzle if you missed it.
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Very nice!
That was fun. Nice warmup for the Sunday Times Magazine puzzle
Enjoying this as a Sunday morning ritual before getting out of bed! Thank you!
This was fun!
Fun! Thank you.
Delightful!
A bit too easy, but entertaining nonetheless. Keep ’em coming.
A tad more difficult than last week. I like it! And btw, you repeat an error here. The Trojan Horse myth is from the Aeneid, not The Odyssey. So the horse in front of the theater is NOT a “Trojan” horse. Just saying! 🙂
I think it is also mentioned in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Poetic license? 🙂
This is so much fun!
I need help with 4-down 🙁
EDIT: I read the instructions and realized there is an Assist option on top. 🙂
Enjoyable!
Thanks Sam! What a great addition to the West Side Rag!
8 Across: Proving why Central Park belongs to the UWS 🙂