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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 #82: The Big Store

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #4! I am sure I have seen this movie, but it made absolutely no impression on me. Not their best one. But I think this puzzle is pretty good! Thanks go out to Will Eisenberg for testing this for me. Our puzzle today is pretty…

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Puzzle #81: Bloom County (a Flower Power puzzle!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver | PDF A Flower Power puzzle for you today! This is a new puzzle type to this site but it’s been around for a while, having been introduced to the United States by none other than Will Shortz! He discovered it in an Italian magazine and brought it…

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Flower Power

Puzzle #80: Going Beyond (Kaidoku)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Your usual reminder of what the heck a kaidoku is: 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…

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Kaidoku

Puzzle #79: Decisions Were Made (acrostic by JibbyMAX!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Bonus Tuesday puzzle for you, and it’s a guest acrostic by Twitch streamer extraordinaire and all-around great guy JibbyMAX! Jibby, what do you have to say? Hi everyone! I’m very excited to present my second ever acrostic [ed note: check out the first one here!]. I was inspired…

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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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Puzzle #77: A Night at the Opera

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s Marx Brothers puzzle #2! In general I don’t like movies, but I love this one. Possibly my favorite movie of all time. This is a theme conceit I’ve been wanting to try for a while! I think it came out pretty good, though it may be on…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #76: Double Elision

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s a crossword. It’s by me. If you like crosswords by me, you might like this one. Norah test-solved this one! Did you see her super-cool Lemonade Disco puzzle? Enjoy the solve!

Crosswords

Puzzle #75: Ransom Where? (acrostic feat. Kate Chin Park!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Heck yeah, it’s the first acrostic of 2023 and I’m delighted to say it features the one and only Kate Chin Park! This was a super fun one to work on and we think the end result is a blast. We hope you agree! Thanks go out to…

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Puzzle #74: Ode to Joystick (feat. Bob Weisz!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Hello 2023! Let’s kick off the year with another collab, this time featuring Bob Weisz! He suggested the revealer in the fifteens-channel on Crosscord and we worked together to make it into the puzzle you’ve got today. We’re on the same cluing wavelength, so it was a real…

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