'This is a common crossword design,' a spokesperson for the newspaper said in a statement.
Newsweek"This is a common crossword design: Many open grids in crosswords have a similar spiral pattern because of the rules around rotational symmetry and black squares," Cohen said in a statement.
The New York Times building is pictured on February 4, 2021, in Manhattan. The inset image shows Sunday's crossword puzzle, which some on social media said resembled a swastika.Caitlin Lovinger wrote about the crossword in her column on Sunday, saying:"I love the geometry in this puzzle—so many stair steps!—and feel that it contributes to a certain evenness in the solve.
"Most of the entries that first caught my eye were of medium length—five or six letters long, bulky enough to give me lots of letters to use in chipping away at each corner—and the whole grid came together all at once," she said.that he was"thrilled" to have his first Sunday crossword in the publication."This grid features one of my favorite open middles that I've made as it pulls from a variety of subject areas.
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