It appears the NYT .puz is no more about shortyz HOT 3 OPEN

This is happening to me too. Any solution in sight for Shortyz users to be able to access the New York Times crossword puzzles?

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ugh, what a mess. I had taken a little break from crosswords (Sept 8 was the last puzzle I did) and missed this whole thing until i fired up shortyz last night and saw the puzzles were missing.

My first thought was "I wonder if we could parse the PDF", I found one person that had the same idea but no followups after that message... it seems possible but also potentially very brittle.

I fired up alphacross and it did download some NYT puzzles, but the syndicated version which IIUC is 5 weeks behind. I don't know where it downloads them from; there are some parts of alphacross that are open sourced at 0xe1f/ararat but the whole app isn't. It did download a puzzle for yesterday, although I didn't check to see what NYT puzzle that corresponded to... but if it's 5 weeks that'd be September 28, which is after the NYT stopped publishing puz files. I'm not sure if they're still doing it for syndication for the time being or if alphacross is getting older puzzles.

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I see a lot of people are upset about this but I can't imagine them reversing course if the initial wave didn't convince them to. It's really crappy that they removed the whole archive, if I'd have known I would have downloaded them all.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58102983

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