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Puzzle #110: I Level

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s a crossword! You might like it. Solve it with your family over Thanksgiving! Do you like acrostic puzzles? Join our Patreon! Do you want a place to discuss puzzles? Join our Discord! Enjoy the solve!

Crosswords

Puzzle #109: Route 66% (a “Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad” puzzle)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Good news everybody! The Crossword Nexus solver now supports puzzles where the clues are decoupled from the entries in the grid. This makes a lot of variety puzzles possible in there that weren’t before. I’ll have more to say about this in the future — including a how-to…

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Crosswords

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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Collabs

Puzzle #107: Think Piece

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Man, it’s been a while! I hope this tides you over until the next one. Also, hey, did you know I’m publishing puzzles with much more regularity on my Patreon? Hey, also, in case you missed it, you can now solve AVCX puzzles in your browser! So that’s…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #106: “If I May …” (kaidoku)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Hey, if you like variety puzzles, you should definitely go subscribe to Outside The Box puzzles. Year 9 starts soon! And of course you should be subscribed to Nathan Curtis’s Patreon if that applies to you as well. Today’s variety puzzle from us is a Kaidoku, and as…

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Kaidoku

Puzzle #105: Compete’s Sake (Dropquote/Floatquote)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Do you like puzzle books? Then I can highly recommend Francis Heaney’s Brain Games for Word Nerds (eBay link because I think maybe it’s out of print). In it he shows off some puzzle formats of his own invention, including this one. How does it work? This puzzle…

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Dropquote

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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Acrostic

Puzzle #103: Where In The World?

 PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Grid art and a theme? Sure, why not. Thanks go out to Will for testing this one. Do you like acrostic puzzles? Join our Patreon! Do you want a place to discuss puzzles? Join our Discord! Do you want even more puzzles? Check out our charity puzzle…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #102: A Pirate’s Life For Me (dropquote)

 PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Easing my way back into posting (hopefully!) weekly puzzles with a dropquote. I hope you like it! Do you like acrostic puzzles? Join our Patreon! Do you want a place to discuss puzzles? Join our Discord! Do you want even more puzzles? Check out our charity puzzle…

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Dropquote

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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Acrostic

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