Puzzles & Games

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

A moderately challenging puzzle.

Vegetable in vichyssoise: four letters.

A challenging puzzle.

Look of scorn or skepticism: seven letters.

Word that can refer to a West African oral historian or a Haitian pork dish: five letters.

Work such as Hannah Arendt’s “We Refugees” or Edward Said’s “Reflections on Exile”: five letters.

Sleepy, tree-dwelling wombat relatives: six letters.

Walk with modelesque confidence: five letters.

Sign listed first on a horoscope page: five letters.

Jeans spec that can be high, mid, or low: four letters.

Can you guess the identities of these nine Oscar-winning actors, past and present?

Can you guess the identities of these nine Grammy nominees, past and present?

Can you guess the identities of nine people who made headlines this year?

Can you guess the identities of these seven titans of industry?

Can you guess the identities of these nine comedians?

Fit last of coconut inside brown rum (7).

Mae West smuggles some farm animals (4).

Teaches Egyptian boy king essentials of Norse (6).

We’ve added some hints and explainers to make this puzzle a little less cryptic.

We’ve added some hints to make this puzzle a little less cryptic.