I can understand that. Don’t suppose it’s appealing to go to your library early in the week and copy that page out of the NYT? That would cost me about 20 or 30 cents. I’m at the library at least once a week any way. In the hinterlands where I am, the Sunday NYT, if you can get it at all, costs $6-8.
I do do the mini-crossword and Connections puzzle every day in my digital NYT, just as brain tai chi.
And my 
is still up too and will be for an undeterminable length of time. I like twinkly lights. The kitten likes posing fetching alongside the twinkly lights in the big picture window. Who am I to deny her admiring passersby and/or dog walkers?