How the NYT Crossword Became Earth’s Most Addictive Passport: A Dispatch From the Global Grid
The Global Empire of Tiny Squares: How the New York Times Crossword Quietly Colonized the Planet By the time the first sip of Monday-morning espresso hits a bleary-eyed banker in Singapore, a retiree in São Paulo has already penciled 1-Across in Portuguese and muttered something unprintable about the clue “Oscar winner Paquin.” The New York…