Crosswords and Crossword Tools
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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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Here’s another bonus acrostic for our patrons at the $3 level or more. I really appreciate you. Thanks so much for the extra support! You can print out this puzzle to solve, or head over to https://crosswordnexus.com/solve If you’re reading this post on my blog, head on over to https://patreon.com/crosswordnexus to download the files. Enjoy!…
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…
If you’re a long-time solver you’ll know that I put enumerations on my acrostics. I think it’s good if the entries are long, because you can get an idea of the entry that way. Today’s acrostic has some smaller entries, which makes me worried that enumerations would make it too easy. I’ve removed the enumerations…
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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One issue with 15×15 crosswords is that lively phrases of length 12, 13, and 14 don’t show up that often because they force some awkward black square patterns. Acrostics, of course, have no such restrictions. As a result, I’m proud to share some fun entries of those lengths in today’s puzzle. I hope you like…
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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Over at the blog I’ve been playing around with acrostic-like puzzles. We ran an acrostic without a quote that we called a “portals” puzzle (https://tinyurl.com/xw-portals) and we’ve also run a dropquote, which is an acrostic without … well, without the acrostic, I guess. Here’s how it works: In a dropquote, you must reveal the quote…
Well, we took a little break from stand-up comedians as fodder for the acrostics, but I couldn’t stay away forever. I like this quote a lot and I hope you do too! Solve at: https://acrostics.crosswordnexus.com/ Discuss at: https://discord.gg/ep2J3KXcmM Enjoy! This content is available exclusively to members of this creator’s Patreon at $1 or more.