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Author: Alex Boisvert

Puzzle #50: Garden Party

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver You see a new 15-letter entry, you have to put it in a puzzle. Those are the rules; I don’t make them up. Thanks to Will for giving this a once-over for me! We’re still raising money to fund pediatric cancer research! We’d appreciate anything you can donate….

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Puzzle #49: Constitutional Crisis (Acrostic)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Wow, second time we’ve used this song as an intro video. Different reasons, though. You’ll see. What’s that? You like fun and hate cancer? Well, why don’t you donate a few bucks to fund pediatric cancer research and get five brand new puzzles for your troubles! Who could…

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Acrostic

Puzzle #48: BK Stacker (with Leo!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver We’re back! Vacation was great. And for our first puzzle back we have a special co-constructor — my son! He suggested the seed entry and we worked together on cluing. I think it came out pretty good for his first effort! Enjoy. Hey, still plenty of time to…

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Collabs

Puzzle #47: Hoop Dreams (Acrostic)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s an acrostic! Kate test-solved it; go pay her site a visit. This is our last puzzle before summer break! We’ll be taking a few weeks off to enjoy some much-needed rest. Don’t worry though, there will be plenty of puzzles to solve, and you can find them…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #46: Visions

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Innervisions puzzle #2! Thanks to Will for test-solving, did you see his super-creative recent puzzle? Two updates from the world of puzzle-solving! First, if you use our online solver, you can now solve in dark mode! Just enable it in the settings. Second, if you prefer to download…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #45: Too High (with Kelsey Dixon!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver We’re starting a new series here at Nexus HQ! One puzzle for each song on Innervisions, one of the greatest albums of all time. And who better to kick off this series with than Kelsey Dixon, aka Crosstina Aquafina! You don’t solve a Kelsey puzzle, you experience it,…

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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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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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