Martial-arts icon who starred in “Enter the Dragon”: eight letters.

TODAY’S TRICKS Clues begin or end with a definition of the answer. The rest is one of these: Anagram Anagram of answer and hint that there’s an anagram ‘Senator arranged crime (7)’ gives TREASON ...

Richard Silvestri delivers a doozy of a challenge. By Caitlin Lovinger CRYPTIC CROSSWORD — This is not a puzzle to zip through unless you’re an absolute whiz at cryptics. I mulled it over for a couple ...

Crosswords, inexplicably, are more popular than ever. The New York Times alone apparently has more than 28 million people playing its word games. (Speaking of which, have you tried Slate’s?) Something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But I would like to take this time to get on a hobbyhorse of mine: More people should be doing cryptic crosswords. For the ...

Fred Piscop charms with a very American cryptic crossword. By Caitlin Lovinger CRYPTIC CROSSWORD — We are the lucky recipients of Fred Piscop’s first cryptic crossword for The New York Times; let’s ...