One good tactic with crossword puzzles is to try to get as many ACROSS as possible first and then you’ll find a lot of the DOWN are already done—or vice versa if the ones ACROSS are trickier.

COMMON (49D: Stage name for Lonnie Rashid Lynn) COMMON is a Grammy Award-winning rap artist from Chicago, Illinois. I have heard of the rapper COMMON, but I did not recognize the name Lonnie ...

Now he’s in a boatload of trouble. The one-legged, sailboat-dwelling Florida man known as “Lieutenant Dan” — who went viral for refusing to abandon his sailboat during Hurricane Milton ...