First of all, my email is
skipperc@zoomtown.com
The Cylons now have gotten to The New York Times. They appeared in the Oct. 31 crossword puzzle. I filled out almost all of the answers, but as you can see, I didn't know some of them and had a few incorrect ones. I HATE the puzzles that put either symbols or extra letters in the spaces.
What you're looking at isn't actually the NYT. The local newspaper republishes the Sunday crossword a week later.
As to the Cylons, I think the reference is to the original ones, not the cyborg/human types in THAT WHICH SHALL BE UNNAMED.