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“Thinking Inside the Box” is the title of the New York Times Crossword puzzle for Sunday, September 13, 2026, featured in the Times’ Wordplay column.Here are the key details about this puzzle:

• Constructors: It is a father-and-son collaboration between Frank S. David (a biotechnology consultant and professor at Tufts University) and Henry Lin-David (a writer based in Pittsburgh). This marks Frank S. David’s debut puzzle for The New York Times and Henry’s second.
• Editor: Will Shortz.
• The Theme and Visual Gimmick: The puzzle features an unusual visual layout: a central 4×4 block of squares that appears visually isolated and cut off from the rest of the 22×22 grid, making it one of the rare Times crosswords to feature disconnected regions.
• How It Works (“Thinking Inside the Box”): Although the central box looks stranded, it connects conceptually to the outer grid. The eight entries located inside the central 4×4 box serve as direct cross-references or definitions/synonyms for eight major theme answers spanning the outer grid:
  • STEM matches FLUTE SECTION (as in a champagne flute)
  • TAXI matches CAR SERVICE
  • AKIN matches RELATED
  • YETI matches GIANT SNOWMAN
  • STAY matches RESERVATION
  • TAKE matches APPROPRIATE (used in the verb sense)
  • EXIT matches WAY TO GO (literal way out)
  • MINI matches SCALED DOWN