Mr. Shortz will edit Sunday puzzles for the magazine and crosswords for the daily paper.

Readers who solve The Times's Sunday puzzles may wish to skip this note until they have completed today's crossword.

Its defenders love "American Pie" precisely because of those references, which are actually about as cryptic as a good Sunday puzzle.

What are you trying to do to the followers of your Sunday puzzle?

Presented as a "Sunday puzzle" for Mr. Clinton, the news release was organized into a series of questions.

Congratulations on adding a second set of clues that can be used to solve the Sunday puzzle (June 6).

Sunday puzzles are not included in Challenge Matches.

(For regular solvers, the Sunday puzzle typically takes from one to four hours.)

The larger Sunday puzzle is approximately the same level of difficulty as a weekday-size Thursday puzzle.

The Sunday puzzle is appropriately 21 x 21 squares, the size of regulation Sunday puzzles in newspapers.