{"id":1150,"date":"2026-04-10T20:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:26:37","slug":"various-crossword-nexus-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/various-crossword-nexus-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Crossword Nexus Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy ACPT to all who celebrate! We&#8217;ve been hard at work here at Crossword Nexus HQ on some stuff; this is a roundup of what we&#8217;ve been doing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patreon! You probably knew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/crosswordnexus\">we had a Patreon<\/a>, but maybe you haven&#8217;t joined for whatever reason. That&#8217;s fine! Money is finite and you can&#8217;t just go spending it willy-nilly. But we also have a free tier, and it would help us out tremendously if you joined it. Patreon&#8217;s algorithm, like YouTube&#8217;s, likes to promote people with lots of followers, so the more we get the merrier. If you&#8217;ve been wanting to support the site but didn&#8217;t know how, this is a great way to do it! And as a bonus &#8230;\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.crosswordnexus.com\/cruxword\/\">Cruxword<\/a>! Cruxword is a free daily word game where you have to guess the top words from clues for a given crossword entry. It&#8217;s especially fun if you have a group of crossword-minded people to do it with, which you might this weekend, maybe?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1151\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cruxword-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cruxword-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cruxword.png 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.crosswordnexus.com\/\">Patreon Tools<\/a> &#8211; we&#8217;ve started to build out advanced, ad-free versions of some of our more popular tools as a thank you for our paid patrons. If you&#8217;ve used Double Occupancy or the Wikipedia Search in the past, you might like the new versions better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crossword-nexus.github.io\/umiaq\/\">Umiaq<\/a>! You may remember our previous attempts at making the word-search tool Umiaq. First we had a Python script which wasn&#8217;t very user-friendly. Then we had a web-based version which was more user-friendly but quite slow. Now we&#8217;ve got the best of both worlds &#8212; a fast, online version that&#8217;s loaded with bells and whistles. Check it out! <a href=\"https:\/\/crossword-nexus.github.io\/umiaq\/\">https:\/\/crossword-nexus.github.io\/umiaq\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/boisvert42.github.io\/mechapuzzle\/\">Mechapuzzle<\/a>! Do you remember our online interface for helping dissect meta-puzzles? Well, it&#8217;s still there, but it&#8217;s much prettier now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and we of course continue to make puzzles occasionally. We recently made a celebratory acrostic. It came out good! You should try it. <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FlagsFlyForever.jpz\">Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However you support this site, whether it&#8217;s supporting our Patreon or just simply reading this blog, we appreciate it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy ACPT to all who celebrate! We&#8217;ve been hard at work here at Crossword Nexus HQ on some stuff; this is a roundup of what we&#8217;ve been doing. Patreon! You probably knew we had a Patreon, but maybe you haven&#8217;t joined for whatever reason. That&#8217;s fine! Money is finite and you can&#8217;t just go spending&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/various-crossword-nexus-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Various Crossword Nexus Updates&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrostic","category-crossword-tools","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}