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Month: January 2023

Google Sheet Improvements

Here at Crossword Nexus, we’re always improving our offerings but we don’t always publicize them. Well, let’s break that trend and publicize improvements to the Google Sheets we’ve created for crossword construction. As you may recall, they are: The Collaborative Crossword sheet, available at https://tinyurl.com/xw-collab The iPuz generation sheet, available at https://tinyurl.com/make-ipuz The first sheet…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #77: A Night at the Opera

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s Marx Brothers puzzle #2! In general I don’t like movies, but I love this one. Possibly my favorite movie of all time. This is a theme conceit I’ve been wanting to try for a while! I think it came out pretty good, though it may be on…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #76: Double Elision

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s a crossword. It’s by me. If you like crosswords by me, you might like this one. Norah test-solved this one! Did you see her super-cool Lemonade Disco puzzle? Enjoy the solve!

Crosswords

Make PDFs from your .jpz, .cfp, and .ipuz files

If you’re on this site, you probably know about our puz to pdf page. It’s simple and it works but customization options are limited unless you feel like futzing with a JSON string. A much slicker interface is available at njyoon.github.io, which makes very pretty PDFs but can only handle puz files. Maybe we could…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #75: Ransom Where? (acrostic feat. Kate Chin Park!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Heck yeah, it’s the first acrostic of 2023 and I’m delighted to say it features the one and only Kate Chin Park! This was a super fun one to work on and we think the end result is a blast. We hope you agree! Thanks go out to…

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Acrostic

Puzzle #74: Ode to Joystick (feat. Bob Weisz!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Hello 2023! Let’s kick off the year with another collab, this time featuring Bob Weisz! He suggested the revealer in the fifteens-channel on Crosscord and we worked together to make it into the puzzle you’ve got today. We’re on the same cluing wavelength, so it was a real…

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