Day: May 11, 2024

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Black Crossword: Mini by Juliana Pache. .pdf, online.
Club 72: Freestyle 911 by Tim Croce. .puz, .pdf.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
Mangesh Ghogre’s Indian Mini Crosswords: Daily Mini by Mangesh Ghogre. .pdf, online.

Autostraddle: AF+ Crossword Has Had It! Officially! by Rachel Fabi and Kate Hawkins. .pdf, online.
Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: May 11, 2024 by Ada Nicolle. .pdf, online.
Crossword Flow: ($) by Igor Ryzhkov. iPad-exclusive app.
Matt Gaffney’s Weekly Crossword Contest: ($) Name-Dropping (Meta) by Matt Gaffney. Subscribe at Patreon.
Morning Brew: Senioritis by Mary Tobler .pdf, online.
Puzzmo: khajiit has wares, if you have coin by nijah. Online.
Reason: Chaos on Campus by Stella Zawistowski. .pdf, online.
Spyscape: On the Up and Up by Lisa Senzel. .pdf, online.

Apple News: ($) Freestyle by Rafael Musa. News+ Subscription Required
Apple News Mini: ($) Daily Mini by David Steinberg. News+ Subscription Required
Crosswords with Friends: Smartypants Saturday by Jeff Chen. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Midi Puzzle by Robyn Weintraub. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Mini Puzzle by Doug Peterson. App Store | Google Play
Daily POP Crosswords: by John Beck. App Store | Google Play, online.
Los Angeles Times: by Rich Norris. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
Los Angeles Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Modern Crossword: ($) Raise the Dead by Sarah Butkovic. Online, .pdf.
New York Magazine: Vowel Play Is Suspected by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
New York Sun: ($) Themeless by Robert H. Wolfe. Reissues from 2005.
New York Times: ($) by Billy Bratton. Online, .pdf, app.
New York Times Mini: by Christina Iverson. Online, app.
Newsday: 05/11/24 Saturday Stumper by Matthew Sewell. Online, .pdf.
PlayFour: ($) Daily Puzzle. Online
The Telegraph: Cross Atlantic by Ali Gascoigne. Online.
Universal: ($) Universal Freestyle 124 by Matthew Luter. Online, pdf. .puz.
USA Today: Ladies First by Wendy L. Brandes & Sally Hoelscher. Online, .pdf, app.
Vox: Kodak Moments by Adesina O. Koiki. .pdf, online.
The Wall Street Journal: That Is It! by Freddie Cheng. Online, .pdf. .puz.
The Walrus: Negative Feedback by Will Nediger. .pdf, online.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Frank Longo. Online, .pdf.

Crossword Nexus: ($) Fearless (Acrostic) by Alex Boisvert. Patreon Subscription.
Squared Away: ($) Daily Puzzle. Online.
Tortoiseshell Studio: Hex Pathfinder by Nathan Curtis. .pdf

Financial Times: FT Crossword: Number 17732 by Buccaneer.pdf.
Financial Times: FT Crossword: Polymath Number 1282 by Sleuth.pdf.
The Globe and Mail: The Daily Cryptic Crossword. .pdf, online.
The Hindu Cryptic: 14172 by Incognito. .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword by Bluth. .pdf, online.
WSJ Variety: Double or Nothing by Patrick Berry. .pdf.

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DCL Highlights, Week of 5/3

Scroll on for our recommendations from the last week of puzzles!

Remember that this is not an attempt to pick the “best” puzzles, and we won’t be commenting as critics. Our approach is best described as “puzzles we don’t think you should miss.” Kind of like staff recommendations at a local bookstore.

Universal: Universal Freestyle 123 (5/4) by Jess Rucks. Easy breezy themeless teeming with fun fill. – Rich

The New Yorker: The Crossword (5/6) by Wyna Liu. Not the hardest New Yorker Monday but a lovely puzzle nonetheless. – Rich

Fireball: ($) What’s Next? (5/8) by Paul Coulter. Really impressive theme that puts up a fight till the very end. – Rich

Lucky Streak: ($) puzzle #170: cruel summer (themeless) (5/9) by Ada Nicolle. An impressive lattice of stacks with some absolutely killer clues and entries. I’ve been absolutely loving Ada’s stuff lately. – Matt

Los Angeles Times: (5/8) by Rebecca Goldstein & Rachel Fabi. A remarkably full theme set for a pattern that you’d think would be hard to pull together. – Matt and Norah

Wall Street Journal: Hand It Over! (5/9) by Karen Steinberg. If you like Evan Birnholz’ Sunday puzzles at the Washington Post, this very much has that vibe in a smaller package. You’ve probably seen a theme like this before, but the extra layer sets Karen’s puzzle apart. – Matt

Universal: Center Lane (5/9) by Lisa Senzel and Jeff Chen. Just a plain darn good theme, with a spot-on revealer. – Matt