Crosswords and Crossword Tools
SOLVER LINK: Online Solver Quiara pitched me on a crossword idea and she immediately hooked me. She said she didn’t want co-author credit for this puzzle, but I for sure wanted to give her credit for the idea. Thanks, Q! Hey, it’s a crossword with a meta element! Here are your instructions: The meta answer…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | JPZ Download Not too long ago Bob reached out to me and said he’d like to collab on an acrostic — and I am never one to turn down a collab. He suggested a quote that I liked a lot and we were off to the races. We think you’ll…
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>>> Solve this puzzle online <<< Happy 2026 everyone! If you’re looking for a New Year’s Resolution, may I suggest dropping Across Lite for good? XWord is an excellent option, and of course there’s always the Crossword Nexus Solver, which you can install to your Desktop if you’d like. The fewer people solving on Across…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Quiara approached me and said “hey, you want to make an Eight Tracks puzzle?” and I said “Why yes I do!” so we made one. Do you remember how these work? This puzzle’s grid has eight tracks and eight sectors. Each track contains a series of words reading either clockwise (+)…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Good news, everyone! The Crossword Nexus solver now supports puzzles with an arbitrary number of clue sets. Since two-tone puzzles have three clue sets, I asked Jeff to add support for that to Kotwords (which he quickly did) and I asked Kelsey to make a puzzle with me…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Putting out a crossword today to announce that our solver has better mobile support! Huge, huge thanks go out to Dob from CrossweirdTV (go give them a follow!) for doing nearly all the work to make this happen. Anyway, if you’re on a phone or tablet, feel free…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Kaidoku time! Remember these? 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 letter throughout the entire grid. Did…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download By the time you read this, I’ll be in Chicago, as I’ll be volunteering for the Midwest Crossword Tournament. I think it’s not too late to register for the online portion of the event! Go do that if you haven’t already. Today’s puzzle is a crushword spiral, a…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | JPZ Download | PDF Download Whoa, we haven’t posted here in a while! Time to fix that with a two-tone puzzle! Enjoy. Hey, do you like variety puzzles like this one? I’m participating in the Newport Dunes triathlon in November, and there’s an associated fundraiser. If you donate any amount,…
PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Last time we ran a seven sages puzzle, our friend Kelsey suggested we call it a “stained glass” puzzle instead. I think this makes sense, since “seven sages” really only applies if the included quote is sage advice somehow. The quote in this puzzle most definitely is not. How does this…