Crosswords and Crossword Tools
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #7, with special guest Dan Schwartz, whose blog you should definitely check out if you’re unfamiliar. We’re both big Marx Brothers fans, so it was synergy to get this together. My favorite type of collaborative theme is when both parties bounce ideas around until…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | PDF Download | Online Solver It’s my first foray into diagramless puzzles! I think this is a fun puzzle type and this should be a relatively gentle introduction to them, if this is your first. In case you don’t know what these puzzles are: they’re just regular crosswords except…
It’s no secret I like to use stand-up comedians as fodder for my acrostics. One issue, I find, is that I often have to chop up the text somewhat to get a usable acrostic. Comedians sometimes ramble, or repeat things, not always getting straight to the point. Well, I am proud to announce that this…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Last year we raised some money for Children’s Hospital L.A. by offering a suite of crossword and variety puzzles to anyone who donated, and we’re happy to say we’re doing it again this year! Donate any amount at my personal fundraising page and we’ll send you a…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #6, once again featuring one of my absolute favorite collaborators, Shannon Rapp, who you may know as Norah Sharpe. The theme here is all Shannon’s, as is the theme density she was able to wrangle into this one. Too many good clues of hers…
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PUZZLE LINKS Easier: iPuz Download | Online Solver Harder: PDF Download | Online Solver Eric Berlin invented a puzzle type called “Patchwork” (example puzzle here) in which entries go in the grid either in rows, or in “patches” like the following It’s a cool puzzle type, but we’re doubling down on the patches in this…
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…
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…
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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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…