In today’s puzzle, each of these four squares is a rebus. In crosswords, a rebus often refers to a word or a group of letters that must be filled inside a single square. But the traditional definition of a rebus — a letter, number or symbol that represents a word — can also appear in crosswords.

The New York Times enraged cruciverbalists (a 15-letter word for people who enjoy solving crossword puzzles) everywhere after the grid published in its Sunday magazine editions simply didn’t line up. “Sunday’s crossword puzzle in the print edition of ...

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Ready to fill in some words and phrases that have never appeared in the New York Times Crossword before? Hemant Mehta, today’s constructor, has a flair for freshness; across his nine previous puzzles for The Times,