This is not a good look, NYT.
According to a report from The New York Post, liberal rag and paper competitor The New York Times published a strange-looking crossword puzzle in the Sunday edition —readers couldn’t ignore its similarity to a famous Nazi symbol.
From The New York Post:
The fraught Sunday brain-teaser, titled “Some Theme’s Missing,” had been concocted by Washington, DC-based consulting manager Ryan McCarty, who has formulated 22 other puzzles for the paper.
“Thrilled to have my first Sunday puzzle in The Times! This grid features one of my favorite open middles that I’ve made as it pulls from a variety of subject areas,” McCarty gushed in a section of the paper titled Constructor Notes.
He wrote that he’d “originally tried to make it work in a 15×15 grid but then decided to expand the grid out to a Sunday-size puzzle with a fun whirlpool shape.”
However, astute viewers were quick to point out that the crossword’s silhouette bore an uncanny resemblance to a swastika, a symbol of hate during the Nazi regime.
Donald Trump Jr. blasted the paper on Twitter.
“Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this [as] 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.”
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
More over at The New York Post:
New York Times slammed over 'swastika' crossword on first day of Hanukkah: 'Disgusting' https://t.co/d9PP22fjbW pic.twitter.com/G519mbaUyK
— New York Post (@nypost) December 19, 2022