Monday, May 5, 2025

Bewilderingly: They Stagger the Entries by Ada Nicolle and Will Nediger.
Black Crossword: Mini by Juliana Pache.
Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: May 5, 2025 by Kelsey Dixon.
Lil AVCX: ($) Perfect Cubes by Terry Sun. Subscribe at link.
Monday Fills: Themeless 139 by Dave Murchie.
Muggle Meta Mondays: Where’s Carmen? (Meta) by Darth.
Pair-o-Ducks: Cross Swords by Pair O Ducks.
Puzzmo: Fore-get It! by Adrian Johnson. Online only
Puzzmo: Bring Your A Game by Shannon Rapp and Will Eisenberg. Online only

Apple News: ($) Love Is All Around by Zhouqin Burnikel. News+ Subscription Required
Apple News Mini: ($) Daily Mini by Erik Agard. News+ Subscription Required
The Atlantic Mini: by Paolo Pasco.
The Columbia Spectator: Daily Mini: 05/05/2025 by Ananya Govindarajan.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
Crossherd: Daily Mini. Online only
Crossword Flow: ($) by Rafael Musa. iPad-exclusive app.
Crosswordr Community: Community Puzzle Platform.
Crosswords with Friends: Movie Monday by Doug Peterson. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Midi Puzzle by Patrick Berry. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Mini Puzzle by David Steinberg. App Store | Google Play
Daily Beast: Park Place, Sun. May 4, 2025 by Matt Gaffney.
The Daily Pennsylvanian: Daily Puzzle
Daily POP Crosswords: by Bonnie L. Gentry. App Store | Google Play, Online, phone app only
India Mini Crossword: Daily Mini
Mangesh Ghogre’s Indian Mini Crosswords: Daily Mini by Mangesh Ghogre.
Merriam Webster: The Missing Letter by Matt Gaffney
Slate: Slate Crossword: Sunday, May 4, 2025 by Ben Zimmer.
Slate: Slate Mini: Sunday, May 4, 2025 by Kiran Pandey.
Vox: by Patrick Blindauer.
Vulture 10×10: The Maggie Puzzle by Stella Zawistowski.
YourPuzzleSource: Daily Puzzle (Midi) by Phil Fraas.

The Boston Globe: Mini Crossword by Sowmya Ramkumar.
Los Angeles Times: by Kevin Christian & Andrea Carla Michaels. Create free Cruciverb account for .puz.
Los Angeles Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski.
New York Sun: ($) Oscar-Winning Costars by Alan Arbesfeld. Reissues from 2007.
New York Times: ($) by Eric Rollfing.
New York Times Mini: by Christina Iverson.
The New Yorker: The Crossword: Monday, May 5, 2025 – City blocks by Kate Chin Park.
Newsday: 5/5/25 Pour It On by Guilherme Gilioli. Online .pdf
PlayFour: ($) Daily Puzzle. Online only
Squared Away: ($) Daily Puzzle. Online only
The Telegraph: Cross Atlantic. Online only
Universal: ($) Retails by Guilherme Gilioli. Direct link to .puz.
USA Today: Top Speed by Dan Kammann & Zhouqin Burnikel.
The Wall Street Journal: Extra! Extra! by Dan Caprera. Direct link to .puz.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Frank Longo.

A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog: Kevin’s Puzzles at Home Season 10, Episode 1: Crazy Clocks by Grant Fikes. .pdf only
BEQ Marching Bands: ($) Marching Bands #11.2 by Brendan Emmett Quigley. Subscribe at link.
Cryptic Crossweird: ($) Wild West Chili by Daniel Grinberg. Patreon Subscription.
Redhead64: PUZZLE #542: Link-Letters 14 .pdf only
Steve’s Cryptic Crosswords: by Steve Townsend. Online only

Financial Times: FT Crossword .pdf only
The Guardian: Cryptic crossword No 29,686 by Vulcan.
The Hindu Cryptic: Daily Cryptic .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword .pdf, online only

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We’ve revamped information about available puzzle formats, only highlighting when one of .puz (either direct or via the “Crossword Scraper” browser extension), .pdf (either directly or via a print option), or online solving options are not available.

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 Off the Grid | 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 ($) | Private Eye | PuzzleCrypt archives | Puzzling StackExchange | r/crosswords | Sydney Morning Herald ($) | The Telegraph | The Times (UK) ($), includes The Listener

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