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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #5, and this time we’re featuring the incomparable Brooke Husic, aka Xandra Ladee! If you have somehow never heard of Brooke, I envy all the good stuff you are about to discover, from her blog puzzles to her work at other outlets. Along with…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #4! I am sure I have seen this movie, but it made absolutely no impression on me. Not their best one. But I think this puzzle is pretty good! Thanks go out to Will Eisenberg for testing this for me. Our puzzle today is pretty…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver | PDF A Flower Power puzzle for you today! This is a new puzzle type to this site but it’s been around for a while, having been introduced to the United States by none other than Will Shortz! He discovered it in an Italian magazine and brought it…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Your usual reminder of what the heck a kaidoku is: Each answer in a kaidoku, or coded crossword, is a common, lowercase English word. The numbers 1 through 26 each stand for a different letter of the alphabet, and instances of a given number stand for the same…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Bonus Tuesday puzzle for you, and it’s a guest acrostic by Twitch streamer extraordinaire and all-around great guy JibbyMAX! Jibby, what do you have to say? Hi everyone! I’m very excited to present my second ever acrostic [ed note: check out the first one here!]. I was inspired…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #3 features language guy Ben Zimmer, and without giving too much away, this theme is right up his alley. We had a lot of fun working on this and we think you’ll like it too! Oh, and if you don’t understand the theme, maybe give…
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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…
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…
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!
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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