# Do NY Times crosswords have titles?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 6, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ny-times-crosswords-have-titles/633823 "2012-09-06T02:23:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ny-times-crosswords-have-titles/633823/1 "2012-09-06T02:23:59Z")

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I do the NYT puzzles on an iPad app, and it doesn’t show puzzle titles. Puzzles in the Washington Post have titles, which give a clue to the theme. Does the NYT print titles for its puzzles?

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**Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ny-times-crosswords-have-titles/633823/2 "2012-09-06T02:30:28Z")

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I think only the Sunday puzzles have titles.

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**Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ny-times-crosswords-have-titles/633823/3 "2012-09-06T02:40:57Z")

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The weekday and Saturday Times puzzles don’t have titles, or consistently have themes that I’ve noticed.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ny-times-crosswords-have-titles/633823/4 "2012-09-06T22:08:10Z")

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Wife has a book of New York Times crossword puzzles printed by Random House and they all seem to have titles. Oh, I see it was copyrighted in '89 even though it is a newly purchased book.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ny-times-crosswords-have-titles/633823/5 "2012-09-07T00:45:08Z")

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Moved from General Questions to the Game Room.

**samclem** , moderator