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Category: Collabs

Puzzle #136: Going Too Far (with Quiara!)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download As the title implies, this is a Going Too Far puzzle featuring Quiara Vasquez! We’ve been working on this puzzle on and off for about a year (!!) so we’re happy to finally present it here. Did you know you can make this type of puzzle too? Just…

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Puzzle #130: Girl Dinner (feat. Kelsey!)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download It’s a themed crossword, and a collab with Kelsey! This theme came about, as so many do, via a discussion on a Twitch stream. So we made it a reality! It is a blessing and a joy to be able to work with Kelsey, and I just regret…

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Puzzle #115: All-American Bitch (co-starring Charlotte!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver What do you do if you only have two theme entries and their lengths don’t match? Make a midi with left-right symmetry! And if you’re really lucky, you get to write said puzzle with your daughter! This is her first venture into crossword construction. We were inspired by…

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Puzzle #113: Hold Them At Bay (co-starring Quiara Vasquez!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Happy 2024! Let’s kick it off with a collab with the one and only Quiara Vasquez! She’s got a companion puzzle to this one up today that you should check out. The theme is all Quiara’s, and she was nice enough to let me hang around and contribute…

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Puzzle #108: Rain Delay (feat. Dob Olino!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver A very special puzzle in honor of the World Series starting tomorrow. And it’s a collab featuring Dob Olino of Crossweird Puzzles and the CrossweirdTV Twitch channel! This puzzle started with a weird side discussion on someone else’s Twitch stream, and after a lot of iteration, it turned…

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Puzzle #104: Dupe There It Is (acrostic with Kelsey!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s an acrostic with Kelsey! This is one where there were some unavoidable dupes and some avoidable ones we didn’t want to avoid, so we just said “screw it” and went hog with it. We hope you love it! Do you like acrostic puzzles? Join our Patreon! Do…

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Puzzle #101: At The Circus (starring The Rackenfracker!)

 PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver | PDF Taking a brief vacation break to post this puzzle from the great minds at The Rackenfracker. I had very little to do with the creation of this puzzle, but they did a great job of extending the acrostic concept in a few very clever ways…

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Puzzle #85: Animal Crackers (with Norah Sharpe!)

 PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #6, once again featuring one of my absolute favorite collaborators, Shannon Rapp, who you may know as Norah Sharpe. The theme here is all Shannon’s, as is the theme density she was able to wrangle into this one. Too many good clues of hers…

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Puzzle #83: Go West (with Brooke Husic!)

 PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #5, and this time we’re featuring the incomparable Brooke Husic, aka Xandra Ladee! If you have somehow never heard of Brooke, I envy all the good stuff you are about to discover, from her blog puzzles to her work at other outlets. Along with…

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Puzzle #78: Horse Feathers (feat. Ben Zimmer!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #3 features language guy Ben Zimmer, and without giving too much away, this theme is right up his alley. We had a lot of fun working on this and we think you’ll like it too! Oh, and if you don’t understand the theme, maybe give…

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