MONDAY PUZZLE — Adam Aaronson’s crossword imagines a kind of fantasy scenario for the digital age: a world without commercials. As a result of a certain expletively named phenomenon, that scenario feels ever more implausible. What was once free costs money, and what once cost money costs more of it. Premium is the new regular, and so on.

Sure, the Mini Crossword only takes 1 or 2 minutes to solve, but the game matters to lots of people, including me.