The New York Times is being ripped by social media users for publishing what they deemed to be a “swastika”-shaped crossword puzzle on the first night of Hanukkah. The fraught Sunday brain-teaser, entitled “Some Theme’s Missing,” had been concocted by Washington, D.C.-based consulting manager Ryan McCarty, who has formulated 22 other puzzles for the paper. “Thrilled to have my first Sunday puzzle in The Times! This grid features one of my favorite open middles that I’ve made as it pulls from a variety of subject areas,” McCarty gushed in a section of the paper entitled constructor notes. He wrote that...