(Yahoo) Several people are calling out the New York Times after the shape of its Sunday crossword puzzle resembled a swastika.
Twitter users slammed the American newspaper on Dec. 18, with many people calling the Sunday edition of its puzzle “disgusting” and “shocking,” with some noting that it was published before the first evening of Hanukkah.
The puzzle, titled “Some Theme’s Missing,” was created by Ryan McCarty, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting manager who has previously created 22 other puzzles for the paper.
“He started this grid in the middle and worked his way out, stirring in a heap of fresh, lively vocabulary, including 20 debut entries,” a New York Times article said.
Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle. Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people… EXACTLY ZERO pic.twitter.com/eZHr0SQbT4
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 18, 2022
Folks are making hay over today’s @nytimes crossword layout. If the swastika is unintentional, you’d think an editor along the way would have caught it. And on the first day of Hanukkah, no less. 🙄
And the clue for 1 across just salts the wound. pic.twitter.com/coNVkgrLUv
— D Christian Harrison (@dcharrison) December 18, 2022
This is the NYTimes crossword puzzle today on the first day of Hanukka.
What the hell, @nytimes? pic.twitter.com/kNBs8RjyJJ
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) December 18, 2022
Other people have pointed out that the @nytimes crossword has an interesting layout this week. I thought, “There’s no way this actually made it to print.” I had just bought the print copy… and we’ll shit. I did nahtsee that coming. (This is real, I just took the photo) pic.twitter.com/j7OPp3UDyr
— Zach D Roberts – Photojournalist for hire (@zdroberts) December 18, 2022
Why does the @nytimes crossword look like that??? 😬😬 pic.twitter.com/896oh90WjC
— Louie Dean Valencia (@BurntCitrus) December 18, 2022
Today’s New York Times crossword is um…making me nervous. pic.twitter.com/73CafLiy3Z
— Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) December 18, 2022
Hundreds of people also commented on the New York Times‘s article for the new crossword puzzle.
