Wall Street Journal to Bring Readers The Saturday Puzzle

The Wall Street Journal is expanding its regular weekend line-up of crosswords and puzzles and will now feature cryptic, acrostic and novelty offerings with the debut of The Saturday Puzzle in tomorrow's Weekend Edition.

"The Journal is already home to an outstanding Friday crossword, and readers will no doubt relish our new Saturday line-up of adventurous and addictive puzzles," said Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. "Our aim is to amuse and bemuse intelligent people."

Following the regular Friday Puzzle in Weekend Journal, The Saturday Puzzle rotation will feature:

• Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, creators of the Atlantic's Puzzler, will contribute a cryptic crossword every four weeks. Readers who are new to cryptics, which rely on cleverness and wordplay, can consult a guide to solvers on WSJ.com;
• Patrick Berry, author of the "Puzzle Masterpieces" collection, and Mike Shenk, the Journal's crossword editor, will offer a novelty word puzzle every two weeks that explodes the usual across-and-down grid and replaces it with snakes, snowflakes, honeycombs, and other mind-bending shapes;
• Mr. Shenk also offers an acrostic every four weeks, in which a solver fills in answers to clues and transfers the letters to a grid that spells out a secret quotation.

In conjunction with the launch of the new puzzles, WSJ.com (http://wsj.com/puzzles) will offer readers the ability to comment on individual puzzles as well as view questions, tips or analysis posted by others. The site will also roll out additional games and features in the coming weeks and months.