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Free Printable Crossword Puzzles I really enjoy a good quality crossword puzzle. Here are some sites that have excellent puzzles that can be printed out. If you're ambitious, you can do as many as 250 puzzles in a single month using the links on this page! Too many choices? Need some help with choosing a puzzle? Check out some ratings here. Some puzzles require AcrossLite (free). PDFs will require the Adobe Reader (free). You'll notice that some are not very printer-friendly. If you need some assistance, please contact me. StarTribune - Universal (Daily) Newsday (Daily) Washington Post - CrosSynergy (Daily) LA Times (Daily) USA Today (M-F) Brendan Emmett Quigley Puzzles* (MTh) Puzzles By Fred (M) Onion* (W) Jonesin'* (Th) Ben Tausig's Chicago Reader Crossword* (F) Chronicle of Higher Education* (F) Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest (F) Peter Gordon's The Week Crossword (F) Victor Fleming's I Swear Crossword (F) Premier Crossword (Su) Boston Globe (Su) The Post Puzzler (Su) The Autofill Project (weekly) Island of Lost Puzzles* (a few puzzles a month) Squaresville Puzzles (a couple puzzles a month) AmericanWay Magazine (Semi-Monthly) A Bit B. E. Wilbered (Monthly) Spirit Magazine (Monthly) Hemispheres Magazine (Monthly) Patrick Blindauer (Monthly) Fireball Crosswords* - Peter Gordon, former Sun Crossword editor, is back with a weekly pay-to-play crossword. New York Times (premium puzzles) – a free 'classic' puzzle from the archives is offered weekly here. * The starred puzzles above do not always adhere to the 'Sunday morning breakfast test' – occasionally allowing words that may cause a solver to lose his/her appetite. Related Sites Web Sudoku Billions of Sudoku puzzles... Easy, Medium, Hard, and Evil. KENKEN Will Shortz calls KENKEN “the most addictive puzzle since Sudoku”. I think he may have something here... WordCount. This is a cool site. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words and ranks them in order of commonness. I'm guessing there aren't too many Crosswordese words in the top 30,000... The best crossword blog I know of is 'Diary of a Crossword Fiend'. This is a great place to keep up to date on everything in the world of crosswords. Another great blog is: Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle. You'll also want to visit the LA Times Crossword Corner, a blog by a fellow Minnesotan and friend of this site. You'll find these blogs and more all in one place at Xword Info. The 'community center' for editors, constructors, and solvers: Cruciverb.com If you live in the Boston area you'll definitely want to visit Cruciverbalists of Boston. Keep in touch with an active group of crossword fans and constructors in the Boston area who get together for group puzzling activities and social events. Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette host A Way with Words, a freewheeling joy ride through the English language featuring calls from word-loving listeners. Matt Ginsberg's Clue Database has been extremely useful to me in helping me in determining my clever clue of the month. I constantly consult it to determine whether a clue is original or 'borrowed'. Have you mastered crosswordese? Take a crosswordese test.
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