Until now, crosswords were available in the Across Lite .puz file format, so anyone with a Times games subscription could download a puzzle and open it in the desktop or mobile app of their choice.

On Monday The New York Times announced its popular crossword puzzles will no longer support the .puz file format. Many third party apps, including Across Lite and Red Sweater Black Ink 2, use the .puz ...

There is another file format, xd, which is like markdown for crosswords. You won't find very many puzzles in this format but if you have a bunch of .puz files already then it's easy to convert from ...