Crossword Links
Crosswords and Other Word Puzzle Sites
- A guide to the puzzles I solve
- New York Times Premium Crosswords
- cruciverb.com (L.A. Times in Across Lite)
- Matt Gaffney’s Weekly Crossword Contest
- Brendan Emmett Quigley
- Will Johnston’s Puzzle Pointers
- Ephraim’s Crossword Puzzle Pointers
- Ink Well and Onion puzzles
- Jonesin’ Crosswords
- Today’s Newsday Crossword (Stan Newman)
- PuzzleSocial’s Crosswords app (incl. Celebrity Crosswords)
- Chronicle of Higher Education crosswords
- Wall Street Journal Saturday Puzzles
- Merl Reagle
- Fireball Crosswords (Peter Gordon)
- Trip Payne’s Triple Play Puzzles
- Matt Gaffney’s Daily Crossword (11x13s)
- Ubercross (T Campbell)
- Justin’s Puzzles
- Puzzlement (Shawn Kennedy)
- Bard Bulletin (Caleb Madison)
- Puzzazz.com (Roy Leban)
- Puzzability (Shenk, Goldstein, Leighton)
- 14 Across
- American Acrostics (Cynthia Morris)
- Cross Nerd (Peter Broda)
- Gryptics/Next-Generation Crosswords (Les Foeldessy)
- American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
About Crosswords and Words
- cruciverb.com (constructors’ community/resource)
- Rules of crossword clues
- XWord Info (about NYT crosswords since 1993)
- Barry Haldiman’s NYT Xword Reference
- Hey, that’s not today’s NYT puzzle!
- Ray Hamel’s crossword page
- Johnny’s BarelyBad site
- Crosswordese.com
- OneLook dictionary search
Crossword Software
- Alex Boisvert’s Crosswords (feat. CrosswordButler)
- Download Across Lite here
- Crossword Compiler (constructing program for Windows
- CrossFire (constructing program for Mac/Windows/Linux)
- Joon’s Firefox plug-ins (for database searches)
Other Crossworders’ Blogs
- Crossword Nation (Elizabeth Gorski’s blog)
- Ellen’s Journal (Ellen Ripstein)
- An Englishman Solves American Crosswords
- Eric Berlin
- Heaneyland! (Francis Heaney)
- L.A. Times Crossword Corner
- Merl Reagle’s Blog
- The Next Best Thing (Dean Olsher)
- Pat Tricks (Patrick Merrell)
- Patrick Blindauer
- The Puzzle Brothers (Dave & Bob Mackey)
- Puzzlehead
- Tyler Hinman
- Water and Waves (Harris Ruben)
Cryptic Crosswords
- Crossword Fiend Forum: Cryptics
- Wall St. Journal Saturday Puzzle (Cox/Rathvon, every 4 weeks)
- The Nation (Kosman/Picciotto, roughly weekly)—digital subscription $18/year
- Biddlecombe’s Guide to Cryptics
- Times for the Times (U.K.)
- Big Dave’s Telegraph Blog (U.K.)
- Fifteensquared (U.K.)