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I have recently purchased a new Surface 3 and upgraded it to Win10. Immediately, I started receiving notifications that the daily NY Times crossword puzzle is available. Since I'm not one for crossword puzzles, I uninstalled the app. It's a few days later, and I'm still getting notifications.

I've searched my registry and removed any reference to "NYTimes", "NewYorkTimes", "crossword", and any variation I can conjure with and without spaces.

I've searched the hard drive using Everything and deleted anything related to the app. (There were a few items I couldn't delete due to access restrictions. I couldn't explain that either: I'm an admin on this machine. Why can't I delete a file?)

It doesn't show up in my notifications management list or in Programs and Features.

I've restarted several times.

Any ideas on how I can remove this notification?

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  • Check in the notification itself whether they have an 'unsubscribe' - usually at the bottom of the notification.
    – whs
    Dec 24, 2015 at 21:25
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    @whs, for Win10 on the Surface, you have to touch and hold (probably right-click) on the notification, then you get a "stop receiving notifications from this app" option. Still concerns me that it's running somewhere... Regardless, write up an answer, and it's yours!
    – gregsdennis
    Dec 25, 2015 at 6:44

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I see this is an old question, but my Surface recently started doing this and in digging around for a solution I came across this question and a solution to get rid of it instead of just hiding it.

The New York Times Crossword app doesn't show up in Programs and Features because it is a Metro app. You can list and remove them with Powershell.

Open a Powershell window, as Administrator if your regular user is not in the Administrators group and list installed App Packages with

    Get-AppxPackage

You can filter just the New York Times app with 

    Get-AppxPackage *york*

It's probably the only one with the word york in it so to remove it

    GetAppxPackage *york* | Remove-AppxPackage

And now it's gone.

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Had the same problem. type notification into the search bar and go to notification and action settings. uncheck times crossword.

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