Day: February 12, 2024

Monday, February 12, 2024

Black Crossword: Mini by Juliana Pache. .pdf, online.
The Columbia Spectator: Daily Mini: 02/12/2024 by Christopher Nunez. .puz, .pdf, online.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
The Daily Pennsylvanian: February 12 by Rosemary Yang. .pdf, online.
Jeff’s Puzzles: Krafty Clues by Jeff Linder. .puz, .pdf, online.
Mangesh Ghogre’s Indian Mini Crosswords: Daily Mini by Mangesh Ghogre. .pdf, online.
The Michigan Daily: February 11 by Dashiell Silvers. Online.
Monday Fills: Cold Cuts by Dave Murchie. .puz, .pdf, online.
Muggle Meta Mondays: Divided Loyalties (Meta) by Adam Simon Levine. .puz, .pdf.
Nautilus Puzzles: Themeless by Ben Tolkin. .puz, .pdf, online.
YourPuzzleSource: Daily Puzzle (Midi) by Phil Fraas. .pdf, online.

Atlas Obscura: Walk This Way by Brendan Emmett Quigley. .puz, pdf, online.
Autostraddle: Mini Crossword Is Totally a Spy by Darby Ratliff. .pdf, online.
Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: February 12, 2024 by Will Nediger. .pdf, online.
Lil AVC X: ($) Let’s Get Going by Shannon Rapp. Subscribe at link.
Puzzmo: Desk Jobs by Matthew. Online.

Apple News: ($) Water Colors by Jared Goudsmit. News+ Subscription Required
Apple News Mini: ($) Daily Mini by Erik Agard. News+ Subscription Required
The Atlantic Mini: by Paolo Pasco. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: Movie Monday by Stella Zawistowski. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Midi Puzzle by Robyn Weintraub. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Mini Puzzle by Robyn Weintraub. App Store | Google Play
Daily Beast: Baby-Making Music, Mon. Feb. 12, 2024 by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
Daily POP Crosswords: by Janice Luttrell. App Store | Google Play, online.
Los Angeles Times: by Amanda Cook. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
Los Angeles Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Modern Crossword: Monday, February 12, 2024 by Kelsey Dixon. Online, .pdf.
New York Sun: ($) Seeking Asylum by Gary Steinmehl. Reissues from 2005.
New York Times: ($) by Jess Shulman and Amie Walker. Online, .pdf, app.
New York Times Mini: by Joel Fagliano. Online, app.
The New Yorker: The Crossword: Monday, February 12, 2024 by Natan Last. .pdf, online.
Newsday: Centennial by Stan Newman. Online, .pdf, backup online.
PlayFour: Daily Puzzle. Online
The Telegraph: Cross Atlantic by James Brydon. Online.
Universal: It’s What’s Inside That Counts by Larry Snyder. Online, pdf. .puz.
USA Today: Bad Hare Day (Freestyle) by Matthew Stock. Online, .pdf, app.
Vox: by Patrick Blindauer. .pdf, online.
The Wall Street Journal: Good Luck! by Josh Goodman. Online, .pdf. .puz.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Frank Longo. Online, .pdf.

A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog: Kevin’s Puzzles at Home Season 6, Episode 7: Work Your Magic by Grant Fikes. .pdf.
BEQ Marching Bands: ($) Marching Bands #9.22 by Brendan Emmett Quigley. Subscribe at link.
The Crossword Scholar: Sneaky Six #7: Satisfy with ample messy unmarried sex (mostly) by Aaron Riccio. .puz, .pdf, online.
Redhead64: PUZZLE #478: Chess Words 4 .pdf.
Squared Away: Daily Puzzle. Online.
Steve’s Cryptic Crosswords: Puzzle 359 by Steve Townsend. Online.

Financial Times: Puzzle 17653 by PHSSTHPOK. .pdf.
The Globe and Mail: The Daily Cryptic Crossword. .pdf, online.
The Guardian: Cryptic crossword No 29,303 by Vulcan. .pdf, online.
The Hindu Cryptic: 14095 by Crescent. .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword by Liari. .pdf, online.

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Check out the DCL’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles

Other American-style links:

Reviews and Discussion at Diary of a Crossword Fiend | Boatload Puzzles/AARP | “Crosscord” Discord | Crucidrama (en español) | Cruciverbalista (en español) | Easy Crossword (Newsday Archives) | FreeDailyCrosswords | Medium Crossword (Newsday Archives) | Hard Crossword (Newsday Archives) | r/crossword | USA Today Reviews and Discussion at Sally’s Take | Squares.io | XWord-Muggles Meta Calendar

Other Cryptic/Variety links:

A Frame Games | cf.kmbweb.de Links Library | CoxRathvon.com | Harper’s ($) | Lovatts | Magpie ($) | Mokelfish Links Library | MyCrossword | NPL | Panda Magazine ($) | Private Eye | PuzzleCrypt archives | Puzzling StackExchange | r/crosswords | Split Decisions | Sydney Morning Herald ($) | The Telegraph | The Times (UK) ($), includes The Listener

Mid-February Crossworld News and Notes

These Puzzles Fund Abortion 4 is available for presale. The largest suite yet in a series that has raised over $200,000 for abortion funds and women’s health care, TPFA 4 includes 2 midi crosswords, 15 standard American crosswords, 1 midi cryptic, 2 full-sized cryptics, 1 full-sized variety puzzle, 1 acrostic, and a mini variety puzzle meta suite.

Make a donation here by March 15 to receive the pack on its release day. A sample puzzle from TPFA3 is available for free, while previous packs are still available for donations.  

The jam-packed constructing team features past contributors and some new ones, while Steve Mossberg, Nate Cardin, Michael Sharp, Ben Tausig and Hoang-Kim Vu join Rachel Fabi, Brooke Husic, and Claire Rimkus on the editing team.

Puzzles for Palestine has added to their offerings, in an effort to support UNRWA following many countries’ decision to withhold support for the 75 year-old humanitarian agency. Members of the team are offering custom-made puzzles for donations to UNRWA. More info here.

Hayley Gold’s next cryptic stream on Twitch is this coming Friday (2/16) at 9 pm Eastern, featuring guests Kieran Boyd, JoeAdultman, and Howard Barkin. The group will be solving original cryptics by the guests and “maybe a surprise.” As always, tune in at twitch.tv/bewilderingly.

In our last edition, we spoke a bit about the rapidly-filling ACPT, which is still seven weeks away but feels right around the corner. There’s no new news since then, except that the team at AmuseLabs helpfully reminded us that regardless of the Mariott’s capacity, anyone can participate in the Virtual Tournament, held concurrently and presenting the same puzzles as solvers in Stamford receive. Very much an option and recommended if you can’t make it in-person for whatever reason.

We’ve gotten away lately from highlighting new sites added to our daily emails. Some quick links to new puzzles added since the start of the year:

Crossword Flow, an iPad-exclusive app that uses handwriting recognition | Kachwords | The Walrus | The Varsity | Rogue Puzzles | Crossword Scholar (Cryptics) | seaon’s puzzles | TV Crossword | Enigmatology | crucidrama (Spanish)

Boswords held its annual Winter Wondersolve tournament a few weekends ago. Congrats to Blizzard division champion Tyler Hinman and runners-up Glen Ryan and Matthew Luter, as well as to other podium finishers:

Flurry: Alicia Lux, Keane Tzong, and Richard Allen
Blizzard Pairs: Jesse Lansner & Laura Braunstein, John Harrington & Jeffrey Fung, Andy and Emily Langowitz
Flurry Pairs: Tori Zopf & Philip Cleary, Kristy and Wendy Gardner, Tim Pierce & Ellen Seebacher

The Winter Wondersolve puzzles (and many past Boswords grids) are available for purchase at boswords.org

A few news links: Grid Love: The Walrus Is Excited to Bring Back the Crossword | A review of Zach Sherwin’s “The Crossword Show”, which recently had a showing at SF Sketchfest | A profile of Juliana Tringali Golden, whose book Pause for Puzzles: Easy Crosswords for Relaxation is available now

Congrats to constructors who have made debuts (in the short window) since our last edition!

Los Angeles Times: Grace and Greg Warrington (2/3), Aidan Brand (2/5), Jon Daly (2/8), Caroline Hand (2/9)

New York Times: Ryan Judge (2/2), Carolyn Davies Lynch (2/3)