2025年1月19日 · Kareem Ayas is a high school teacher of English literature and film studies in Harlem. He grew up in Syria and Lebanon, moved to the United States in 2014 and started solving the Times crossword with co-workers during lunch breaks.

Kareem Ayas is a high school teacher of English Literature and Film Studies in Harlem. He grew up in Syria and Lebanon, moved to the U.S. in 2014, and started solving the Times crossword with co-workers during lunch break. Soon his puzzle habit led to constructing.

2025年1月4日 · SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Shortz, in his print introduction to this grid, writes: “Kareem Ayas is a high school teacher of English Literature and Film Studies in Harlem. He grew up in Syria and...

2024年7月18日 · Like the TARDIS in “Doctor Who,” Kareem Ayas’s puzzle travels through time and space.

2023年12月27日 · New York Times Thursday, July 18, 2024 NYT crossword by Kareem Ayas, No. 0718, with commentary

2025年1月5日 · Constructor: Kareem Ayas Relative difficulty: Medium THEME: "All Things Change" — expressions involving "change" (i.e. coins: a "dime" a "penny" a "nickel" and a "quarter") are represented visually in the grid by coin-squares (or, in the case of "quarter," a lack of such a square).

The 1/5/25 "All Things Change" crossword is by Kareem Ayas. Themed answers are phrases referring to COINS, and hints to other answers.

2025年1月11日 · It must be Kareem Ayas day. In addition to today's LA Times, he is also the constructor of the Universal crossword and the USA Today crossword. Kareem, congrats on your debut(s)! January 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM

2024年9月4日 · Constructor: Kareem Ayas Relative difficulty: Medium, 12:45 (I clocked the rebus very quickly, but some vocab slowed me down) THEME: SEMICIRCLES [First- and third-quarter moons, e.g. … or a hint to this puzzle's theme]— The letters SEMI appear in three circles scattered throughout the grid