An update to The New York Times Crossword app brings you more than 9,000 puzzles

A new update to The New York Times Crossword app for Windows and Windows Phone includes over 20 years worth of puzzles – that’s more than 9,000 puzzles to challenge you! The New York Times Crossword is free to download, and all users get free unlimited access to the daily puzzle and calendar archive for seven days upon downloading. After the seven days, simply subscribe to the New York Times Crossword for full access to The Crossword on your Windows devices and at NYTimes.com*.

A few fun features you’ll enjoy with The New York Times Crossword app for Windows and Windows Phone:

Daily Puzzle
Enjoy the same puzzle that’s printed everyday in The New York Times newspaper. All daily puzzles are available the previous day at 10PM EST with a subscription.

Mini Puzzle
Short, sweet and available without a subscription every day, get a quick crossword fix when you don’t have time for the whole thing.

Pen
If you have a Surface, you can solve the way crosswords were meant to be solved: by writing directly on the puzzle as you would in the newspaper with Surface Pen.

Past Puzzles
Subscribers also enjoy years of classic puzzles from The New York Times archives.

Modern Puzzle Features
Solve puzzles that include new tricks like rebuses, highlighted or underlined squares, and more!

Download The New York Times Crossword for free from the Windows and Windows Phone Stores today.

*Subscription to The New York Times Crossword does not include access to any other New York Times products, including but not limited to NYTimes.com or mobile news content, e-reader editions, Times Premier, NYT Now, or any other apps.