NYT Crossword
The daily puzzle is a 15 x 15 one of these.
What is a grid?
This 1996 movie features Jordan with other well-known characters in a bid to win freedom through a basketball match.
What is Space Jam?
These come in pieces and have become popular pastimes as more people spend time at home.
What are jigsaw puzzles?
This eradication of this disease serves as the backdrop of a romantic relationship by a Colombian author.
What is cholera?
The coronavirus pandemic was first identified in this manufacturing city in December 2019.
What is Wuhan?
It's a puzzle that's not quite a full size but not quite the smallest either.
What is a MIDI?
Jordan retired from basketball for the first time in 1993 and signed a contract to play this sport in 1994.
What is baseball?
More people are home-making these as they spend time in their kitchens.
What is bread?
This existentialist classic novel from 1947 by Camus depicts a disease sweeping the Algerian city of Oran.
What is The Plague?
This Asian country has been hailed for contact tracing, testing, and isolating cases, along with other physical distancing policies, that helped to reduce the size of its coronavirus outbreak and flatten the curve.
What is South Korea?
He wrote a paper in eighth grade titled "Puzzles as a Profession," designed his own major at Indiana University called Enigmatology and today serves as a puzzle editor for a popular puzzle creator.
Who is Will Shortz?
This Bulls player played an important role in transforming them into a championship team and nearly won the MVP in 93-94 following Jordan's retirement.
Who is Scotty Pippen?
This phrase has became a public rallying cry for the use of social distancing and isolation to control the pandemic.
What is "flatten the curve"?
These famous two sentences open the most celebrated Dickens novel, published in 1859 and depicting life in London and Paris, during and after the French Revolution.
What is "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
The government of this country imposed a complete lockdown of 21 days in hopes of curbing the pandemic in this country.
What is India?
The NYT crossword famously gets progressively more challenging every day with the most challenging puzzle of the week presented on this day.
What is Saturday?
Featuring Jordan and other active professional players from the NBA for the first time, this was the nickname for a 1992 American Olympic team.
What is the Dream Team?
The practice of jumping into public videoconference calls and using the platform’s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting participants.
What is zoombombing?
This 2018 novel follows a character named Candace in New York City as the Shen Fever pandemic spreads globally.
What is Severance?
This country imposed a 4-week lockdown earlier than most and their leader recently announced, “We have the opportunity to do something no other country has achieved -- elimination of the virus.”
What is New Zealand?
This symbol in a crossword clue usually indicates a play on words.
What is a question mark?
Jordan usually played with the number 23 or 45 but in 1990, his jersey was stolen and he played with this number for exactly one game.
What is number 12?
This home-made version of beaten coffee was popularized on social media during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
What is a dalgona coffee?
A short story by Edgar Allan Poe follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid this dangerous plague, by hiding in his abbey.
What is The Red Death?
This city-state is studying using cruise ships to temporarily house foreign workers who have recovered from the coronavirus and tested negative.
What is Singapore?