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Introducing <em>The Atlantic</em>’s Sunday Crossword

We’re expanding our puzzles to the weekend, and launching a new feature so that you can play with friends.
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Editor’s Note: Our crossword puzzle gets a little bit more challenging each weekday. And now we have a Sunday puzzle, too. Play!

One of my least favorite things about life is that many big problems can’t be neatly solved. But that’s why I love crossword puzzles: They always can be. I gotcomplicated or awkward. Doing the crossword on the subway to school gave me one task a day that I knew had a solution. I think this joy is something all solvers have in common.

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