Crosswords and Crossword Tools
Most of you know about the Crossword Butler, and the butler is great, but he has only been serving up American-style crosswords. What can you do if you’re hankering for some cryptic-style snacks? Well, good news, because our butler made a friend. Introducing Cryptic Crossword Butler, serving up cryptics both American and British, despite his…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Pretty sure I don’t need to introduce my co-author today, but in case you hadn’t heard, Brendan Quigley has been pumping out crosswords for years in all the outlets including over 1400 at his own site. He recently constructed a cryptic crossword as part of the AVCX Kickstarter…
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It’s been a while since we’ve had any updates about crossword tools here at Crossword Nexus, but that doesn’t mean nothing has been going on. While we don’t have any big announcements quite yet, there have been many improvements to our offerings: The Crossword Nexus Solver now has the “Notepad” available from the “File” dropdown,…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Hi! You see that video above? You can just skip it. It’s by far the worst of the Yacht Rock series. I don’t even know why they bothered making it. And the title isn’t even the name of a song! We do have a midi-sized puzzle today named…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver More grid art today. Did you know Super Mario Bros. sprites are 16×16, which makes them the perfect size for this kind of thing? Enjoy the solve, and as always, if you plan to solve on Twitch, let us know about it!
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver I don’t know why it took me this long to do a grid art crossword, especially since I’m a big pixel art fan. Expect more grids like this soon! Enjoy the solve, and as always, if you plan to solve on Twitch, let us know about it!
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver I see fewer acrostics these days than we did in the acrostic boom of the summer of ’21. Let’s take a step toward fixing that. Enjoy the solve, and as always, if you plan to solve on Twitch, let us know about it!
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Reaction to our last coded cryptic was mostly positive, so let’s do it again. There was one common complaint, which is that most solvers didn’t look at all the cryptic clues. They used a few to find a foothold and then filled in the grid using the code, which is fine,…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Look, if you didn’t think I would make a crossword to acknowledge a certain recent event, you don’t know me very well. But after solving this puzzle, you’ll know me a little better! These one-way interactions on the internet are weird. Enjoy the solve, and as always, if…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | PDF | Online Solver EDIT (8:11 AM Pacific): A few missing clues have been added, and an enumeration fixed. We’ve got a very special puzzle for you today, a hybrid coded and cryptic. Here are the instructions for such a thing: Each answer in a coded crossword is a common,…
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