Chances are you didn’t wake up this morning eager to see your daily newspaper and find out who won yesterday’s presidential election. But there was a time when I did.

Mr. Last has created crosswords for The Times and other outlets. On Dec. 18, 1941, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lester Markel, the Sunday editor of The New York Times ...

The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard ...