Crosswords and Crossword Tools
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: iPuz Download | Online Solver It’s another crossword! I remember how to make these! Exciting. Good news everyone! You can now solve AVCX trivia puzzles directly from within the AVCX web portal. Just log in and you’ll see a “Solve” link for all future trivia puzzles. Have at it! Do you like acrostic…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver This have been a good puzzle for some sweet Star Wars grid art, but oh well. I think it’s a fun puzzle anyway. Do you like acrostic puzzles? Join our Patreon! Do you want a place to discuss puzzles? Join our Discord! Enjoy the solve!
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Good news everybody! The Crossword Nexus solver now supports puzzles where the clues are decoupled from the entries in the grid. This makes a lot of variety puzzles possible in there that weren’t before. I’ll have more to say about this in the future — including a how-to…
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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…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver I have no memory of this movie except that I once accidentally watched it thinking the stateroom sketch was in this one but it’s not (it’s in A Night at the Opera). But it makes for a good crossword title and Kate agrees! In fact, the theme…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Here it is, the puzzle that was famously (?) accepted by the New York Times, and then, months later, rejected by the New York Times. I later repurposed it for Crosswords LA, and now I’m using it here. So, it’s had a good run, despite its rocky…
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 #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…