As a precursor to Daily Crossword Links, I maintained a spreadsheet of Puzzle Sources, with notes on frequency and other salient details. Once the daily emails were up and running, it became unwieldy to keep multiple resources aligned and updated, and it fell by the wayside. But some puzzles that were already defunct by 2020 or static collections didn’t make the transition to a daily approach.
With a caveat that most of these sources are 5+ years old, and any comments from me are at least two years old, here’s more puzzles if you’re in need:
| Across to Bear | 32 2010-2011 puzzles from then-Brown students, including recognizable names Zoe Wheeler, Natan Last, Jonah Kagan, Aimee Lucido |
| Alex Boisvert | A handful of puzzles. I’m not sure the original publish dates. |
| Alexa Shortbush | From Greg Johnson. Couple hundred puzzles, but tough to tell when updated |
| Beekeeper Labs | 140 puzzles from 2007-2010 |
| Blather Review | 100+ puzzles from a wide time frame from Robert Jones, who I have not heard of. Haven’t solved any yet. |
| Boswords | Annual Tournament expanding to multiple annual online events. Past puzzles available for purchase. |
| Bryant Park Tournament | Annual Tournament coordinated by Mike Shenk. Past puzzles available for purchase/made pay what you can during coronavirus pandemic. |
| Caroline’s Cryptics | Collections from the Toronto Star available for purchase. |
| CHE | SUNSETTED FEB 2020 Consistent difficulty, themes fall into narrower range reflecting the publication. Midweek difficulty. |
| CRooked | REBOOTED as Hub Crosswords on Patreon. Hex and BEQ in Boston Magazine. Previously available for email subscription, similar vibe to Gaffney’s New York Magazine puzzles. |
| Crossword Constructor’s Handbook | From Patrick Berry. Comes with 70 puzzles alongside a manual to crossword construction for only 10$ |
| Crossword Tournament From Your Couch | Groundbreaking online tournament first held 3/2020, with promise of more to come. Most puzzles available for download free. |
| CrosSynergy | It’s darn tough to find any of these, since publication rights were returned to constructors as I understand, but a few dozen are here, thanks to the WayBack Machine |
| Cruciverbalist At Law | Good backlog of puzzles from Andy Kravis. |
| Dan Does Not Blog | Dan Feyer has indicated he’ll be uploading scans of archival puzzles in the coming months. One batch of “Something Different”s is already up. |
| Devil Cross | Pre-WaPo Evan Birnholz |
| George Barany and Friends | Extensive archive of puzzles from a variety of constructors, often themed to current events of the time. I haven’t solved many. |
| Glutton for Pun | Erik Agard. Rare puzzles nowadays, but a couple hundred in site archives. |
| Graham Rosby | Last posted in 2012. Haven’t solved any yet. |
| Grids for Good | COVID-19/Antiracist charity puzzle pack released July 2020 |
| Growler Magazine | DEFUNCT. Monthly puzzles for industry publication from Andrew Ries and Vic Barocas. Not solvable online, difficult to print. |
| Hex Cryptic archives | Repository of links to cryptics by Cox/Rathvon. |
| I Dreamed a Theme | Karl Ni and Amanda Chung. Haven’t posted in a while, but have gotten a few puzzles into the NYT. |
| Nation Cryptic | SUNSETTED MAR 2020. Now “Out of Left Field Cryptics.” |
| National Puzzler’s League Cryptic Crosswords | .pdf collection of Kosman/Picciotto cryptics. |
| New York Sun | Defunct puzzle edited by Peter Gordon, pre-Fireball. Some puzzles are accessible at this link. |
| Patrick Berry | Various Cryptic/Variety packs available at his site |
| Patrick Blindauer | Half-dozen puzzle suites available at his site |
| Patti Varol | Prolific editor has 20+ sample puzzles on her site |
| Puzzles for Change, 20 under 30 | Puzzle packs from longer ago – gotta dig up links |
| Queer Qrosswords and Queer Qrosswords 2 | Amazing puzzle packs by LGBTQ+ constructors available with donation to LGBTQ+ charity of your choice. |
| Sheffer, Joseph | Syndicated puzzles under the King Features Syndicate. |
| The Cross Nerd | Peter Broda, 96 posts. |
| The Vulture | More (old) metas from Matt Gaffney. |
| Theresa’s Cryptic Crosswords | |
| Todd McClary | Some “Unthemely” archives available, though roughly 80 from this site and its forebears are dead dropbox links. |
| Trip Payne | Variety of puzzle types created 2007-2013 |
| Visual Thesaurus | A couple years’ worth of monthly BEQ puzzles. |
| Will Johnston | Accompanies the VERY useful Will Johnston’s Puzzle Pointers Page. Themed puzzles linked in the cell to the left, themeless linked in this cell. |
| Women of Letters | 18 puzzles from women constructors available with donation to women-centric charity of your choice. |