Crosswords and Crossword Tools
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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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 | 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…
Are you an AVCX subscriber? You’re not? What’s wrong with you?! Go subscribe and then come back here. Okay, all set? Great. Well now that you’ve got that settled, you might want to check out our online interface to help you find and solve AVCX puzzles – we’re calling it AVCX × Crossword Nexus. This…
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…
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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I’ve had a few people tell me they’d like to see more data around the Wisdom of Salomon website. As a data nerd myself I can’t believe I didn’t think of doing it earlier! So here goes. All data is current as of December 2022. The Graph Let’s start with the entire graph, if you…
A while back, Quiara introduced the concept of a “Salomon number”. She explains it better than I could, but basically, how many collaborations do you need to go through to get from any given constructor to the greatest of all mentors, Nancy Salomon? Quiara says: As much as I wish there was an easy way…