From Mike Shenk:On January 16, The Wall Street Journal launched the Saturday Puzzle, the new home for America's most elegant, adventurous, and addictive crosswords. If you're a crossword fan and enjoy our weekly offering in the Friday Weekend section, you'll love moving on to our new Saturday line-up, brought to you by a murderer's row of the best constructors in puzzledom:
- Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon, until recently the creators of the brilliant and devious Puzzler in the Atlantic, contribute a cryptic crossword every four weeks. (Fans who are new to cryptics, which rely on cleverness and wordplay, can consult a guide to solvers on wsj.com.)
- Patrick Berry, author of the "Puzzle Masterpieces" collection, and Mike Shenk, the WSJ's crossword editor, offer a novelty word puzzle every two weeks that explodes the usual across-and-down grid and replaces it with snakes, snowflakes, honeycombs, and other mind- bending shapes.
- Mike also offers an acrostic every four weeks, in which a solver fills in answers to clues, and transfers the letters to a grid that spell out a secret quotation.
While other publications are cutting back on their crosswords, the Wall Street Journal is expanding and bringing you the cream of the crossword crop. We hope you'll join us every Friday and Saturday.
