Crosswords and Crossword Tools
PUZZLE LINKS: Easier Version (Mobile-Friendly) Regular Version We added a new feature to the Crossword Nexus Solver, so to celebrate, we’re running a Patchwork puzzle. This is a puzzle type invented by Eric Berlin, and constructed with the help of Twitch chat! Thanks to everyone who participated in helping make this puzzle, and thanks…
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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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 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…
PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Hey, look, it’s a puzzle that looks like a flower power but isn’t quite. Here are the instructions for this one: The answer to each clue in this puzzle is five letters long and should be entered in a curve starting in the correspondingly numbered space and proceeding clockwise. If you…
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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…