Crosswords and Crossword Tools
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…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Yet another puzzle type only presentable in PDF or in the variety puzzle solver, and it’s yet another puzzle type invented by the one and only Patrick Berry. How does it work? Each answer in this puzzle is seven letters long and encircles the correspondingly numbered space, reading either clockwise (+)…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver (Harder) | Online Solver (Easier) Over on Tyler’s stream someone (I’m sorry I forgot who!) suggested we run a section 8 (or eight tracks) puzzle, so here it is! This is a format invented by (who else) Patrick Berry, and we’re proud to present one here. Here’s how it works: How…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Welcome back, baseball! It’s been a long winter of non-baseball sports. We’ve got a Gridlock puzzle to celebrate. Remember those? This puzzle consists of five grids with some letters pre-filled. In each grid, you must use letters from a nine-letter word to fill in the nine empty spaces…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Today we’re proud to present a Jelly Roll puzzle, a puzzle type invented by Eric Berlin. To my knowledge, he’s the only person to have created a puzzle of this type up until now, but he gave me the go-ahead to run this one. If you’d like to make one of…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Oh, man, it’s been too long. Let’s do a Snake Charmer puzzle. Remember how these work? Each entry begins in the correspondingly numbered square and snakes around the grid, ending in the square immediately before the next number in order. Entry 29 ends just before square 1, and…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | JPZ Download As part of my quest to write at least one of every type of variety puzzle, here’s a Marching Bands! If you’ve never done one of these before, here’s how it works: In this themeless variant, answers appear in two different directions, Rows and Bands. Each Row has…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download I have been trying to make a Two-Tone puzzle for SO long. “How hard could it be?” I thought, as I had easily come up with tools to help create snake charmer and spiral puzzles. But for a very long time, I just couldn’t crack the logic for…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver (regular) | Online Solver (harder) Hey, it’s our first foray into the hex pathfinder puzzle type! This is a tough type to construct, and a pretty challenging one to solve. Our friend Kate Chin Park struggled through the first version of this and suggested we make a simpler version, which we…