Crosswords and Crossword Tools
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Anyone else excited baseball is back? To celebrate, we’re running a variety kaidoku. Years ago I posted a bunch of these, but it’s likely most of you have never seen one, so: Most entries in a variety kaidoku are common, lowercase English words. A few entries are…
PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Happy to work with meatdaddy again after our previous wildly successful collab! They were the perfect person to work with on this puzzle because … well, if you know meatdaddy, you’ll see why. Thanks go out to Will for giving this one a once-over for us! Enjoy the solve, and…
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PUZZLE LINKS: PDF Download | iPuz Download | Online Solver Presenting a puzzle type we really enjoy, invented by our friend Joon — it’s a “Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad” puzzle! What is such a puzzle? Glad you asked. Each answer in this puzzle is a lowercase dictionary word. Clues come in three types:…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver The Yacht Rock series of puzzles continues! You can find the others here. It was not easy to come up with a puzzle with this title. I think we ended up with something pretty good. Thanks to Kelsey for the test-solve! Enjoy the solve, and as always, if…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s an acrostic. You know the drill by now. Thanks to Kate for her ever-invaluable feedback. Enjoy the solve!
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Not a Yacht Rock puzzle today, but we named this one for a Christopher Cross song because we’ve got a Snake Charmer variety puzzle! Snake Charmer is a variety type invented by Patrick Berry and is traditionally presented in an “S” shape, but I prefer the more compact,…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver If you’re just tuning in, we’re doing one puzzle for each episode of the Yacht Rock series, and this is our tenth one! You can find the others here. We have an easy-breezy themed puzzle today we hope you enjoy. Thanks to Kate for the test-solve! Enjoy the…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Another day, another terrific tool courtesy of Jeff Davidson over at Kotwords. This time it’s a tool to make Helter Skelter puzzles, which is a variety puzzle I really like. So I had to try it out and make one! This may be a variety puzzle type…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Video contains spoilers for today’s puzzle! This past weekend we made an acrostic on Twitch, and here it is! Thanks so much to everyone who watched the stream and participated in the creation of this puzzle. And then thanks to Will for test-solving it and saying “hey,…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Thanks to our test solvers Meatdaddy and Britta for taking a look at this one! They said what I expected them to say, which is that they enjoyed the puzzle but did not understand how the title related to anything. Our friend Kate stepped in to suggest something…