Crosswords and Crossword Tools
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | JPZ Download As part of my quest to write at least one of every type of variety puzzle, here’s a Marching Bands! If you’ve never done one of these before, here’s how it works: In this themeless variant, answers appear in two different directions, Rows and Bands. Each Row has…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download I have been trying to make a Two-Tone puzzle for SO long. “How hard could it be?” I thought, as I had easily come up with tools to help create snake charmer and spiral puzzles. But for a very long time, I just couldn’t crack the logic for…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver (regular) | Online Solver (harder) Hey, it’s our first foray into the hex pathfinder puzzle type! This is a tough type to construct, and a pretty challenging one to solve. Our friend Kate Chin Park struggled through the first version of this and suggested we make a simpler version, which we…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz file | Online Solver Good news, everybody! Brooke Husic and Will Nediger, in collaboration with studio A24, have just released a book of 99 TV crosswords. They were nice enough to ask me to write a few puzzles for it, including one with a celebrity collaborator. In celebration of the release, we’ve…
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If you’ve been around this site for a while, you’re probably familiar with our PDF creator. We haven’t really updated it in a while, so we were due for something like this. And it’s a big one! As of this moment, just about any puzzle type you can think of can be turned into a…
PUZZLE LINKS: PDF (regular) | PDF (harder) | RG file | Online Solver I learned a new word, so I decided to build a rows garden puzzle around it. This one happened to be nine letters long, but good news! The Rows Garden Creator can now accept seed entries of (almost) any length! Try it…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Inspired by our friend Tyler’s performance on a game show (um, seven years ago) we’re proud to present a gridlock puzzle! Kelsey gave this one a test-solve, thanks Kelsey! Here’s how it works: This puzzle consists of five grids with some letters pre-filled. In each grid, you must use letters from…
PUZZLE LINKS: PDF | RG file | Online Solver We’re very happy to bring you, for the first time ever on this site, a Rows Garden puzzle! This was a puzzle type invented by (who else) Patrick Berry, and it’s a fun one. Kelsey test-solved this one (thanks Kels!) and she agrees! Here’s how it…
PUZZLE LINKS: PDF | Online Solver Friend of the blog Kate Chin Park suggested we run a Flower Power puzzle, since it’s been a while, so here it is. She even tested it for us! What a pal. Do you remember how flower power puzzles work? Here’s the lowdown: The answer to each clue in…
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Have you ever had a crossword file and you wanted to get the clues and entries in a spreadsheet? I’m sure this has happened to a few of you for whatever reason. Anyway, we’ve made a tool for that. https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/export-clues-and-entries/ Just grab a puzzle file in any digital format and we’ll make you a table…