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Month: May 2022

Puzzle #44: Take Five

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Man, is this a dumb puzzle. You know what’s not dumb? Donating money to fund pediatric cancer research and getting some sweet puzzles for your efforts! Thanks to everyone who’s already donated, and thanks to you if you’re donating today! Enjoy the solve!

Crosswords

Making “decoupled-clues” puzzles

There are many, many puzzle types out there which have clues decoupled from the entries. In a standard crossword, you know exactly where a word should go once you read the clue, but in these puzzles that detail is left for you to figure out. Nathan Curtis in particular has been making a lot of…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #43: Plank Therapy

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Proper names in acrostics are really something. Some of you will plop in clue A immediately, some will get it after filling in a few words of the quote, and some of you won’t know this person at all. It’s okay! Feel free to do a “reveal” wherever…

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Acrostic

Onion Clues

Have you ever had to clue a puzzle, and you get to a boring word like “felt” and wish you had some good way to clue it?  Maybe options like these would work for you. These are the options spit out by our new tool, the “Onion Clue” generator.  Just type in the word (or…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #42: Two By Two (plus special announcement!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver A puzzle from the archives today! This one was originally published over a decade ago at the now-defunct Crossword Fiend Forum. I cleaned up the clues and fill a bit, had Will test it out, and here it is! Enjoy. But wait, there’s more! I signed up for…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #41 — So It’s Come To This: A Simpsons Quip Puzzle

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver You ever have an idea that’s real stupid but you talk to some people about it and they all encourage you to do it, so then you have to do it? Yeah. Thanks to Kate for the test-solve. We had a recent collab you should go solve because…

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