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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 235 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).

StarTribune - Universal (Daily)
Newsday
(Daily)
LA Times (Daily)
Wall Street Journal (Daily)

The New Yorker (M)
Bewilderingly (M)
USA Today (M-F)
Brendan Emmett Quigley Puzzles* (MTh)
Club 72 (TF)
Jonesin' (Th)

Chronicle of Higher Education
* (F)
Matt Gaffney's The Week Crossword (F)

Premier Crossword
(Su)
Chris Words (Su)
Sunday Crossword by Evan Birnholz (Su)

Muller Monthly Music Meta (Monthly)
Glutton for Pun
* (Monthly?)
Cruciverbalist at Law
* (Monthly?)



Premium Puzzles
Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest (F)
Fireball Newsflash Crosswords (Bi-weekly)

New York Times (Daily) – 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.

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. You'll also want to visit the LA Times Crossword Corner, a blog by a fellow Minnesotan and friend of this site.

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'.

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