Monday, March 6, 2023

Bewilderingly: I’ll Get to It Eventually by Will Nediger. .puz, .pdf, online.
Black Crossword: Mini by Juliana Pache. .pdf, online.
The Chicago Maroon: 2024 Figures by Pravan Chakravarthy. .pdf, online.
The Columbia Spectator: Daily Mini: 3/6/23 by Ruby Zeidman. .puz, .pdf, online.
Crafty Crosswords: visual aids by lila goldenberg .pdf, .puz, online.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
The Daily Princetonian: Small but Mighty (Mini) by Anna Solzhenitzyn. Online.
Jeff’s Puzzles: Themeless 48 by Jeff Linder. .puz, .pdf
Monday Fills: Winning by Dave Murchie. .puz, .pdf, online.
Olio Grids: Reckless Teenagers by Brian Callahan. .pdf, online.
xwordswithbabka: Bitter Earth (Semi-Themeless #2) by Dan Schwartz. .puz, .pdf, online.
YourPuzzleSource: Daily Puzzle (Midi) by Phil Fraas. .pdf, online.

Atlas Obscura: Something Smells! by Stella Zawistowski. .puz, .pdf, online.
Autostraddle: Autostraddle Mini — March 6, 2023 by Rachel Fabi. .pdf, online.
Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: March 6, 2023 by Kate Chin Park. .pdf, online.
Fireball: ($) Star-Crossed Lovers (Fireball Crosswords) by Damon Gulczynski. Subscribe at link.
Lil AVC X: ($) Very, Very Good Friends by Kelly Nguyen Dickson. Subscribe at link.
Planet Crossword: Aficionado Themeless by Zhouqin Burnikel. Online.

The Atlantic Mini: by Paolo Pasco. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: Movie Monday by Matt Jones. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Midi Puzzle by Fred Piscop. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Mini Puzzle by Zhouqin Burnikel. App Store | Google Play
Daily Beast: Reunion Opinion, Mon, Mar 6, 2023 by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
Daily POP Crosswords: by Janice Luttrell. App Store | Google Playonline.
Los Angeles Times: by Rebecca Goldstein. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
Los Angeles Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Modern Crossword: Monday, March 06, 2023 by Anna Gundlach. Online, .pdf.
New York Magazine: Whining and Dining by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
New York Sun: ($) Name That Food by Sarah Keller. Reissues from 2003.
New York Times: ($) by Lynn Lempel. Online, .pdf, app.
New York Times Mini: by Joel Fagliano. Online, app.
The New Yorker: The Crossword: Monday, March 6, 2023 by Elizabeth C. Gorski. .pdf, online.
Newsday: They’re Handled by Stan Newman. Online, .pdfbackup online.
The Telegraph: Cross Atlantic by James Brydon. Online.
Universal: Knead I Say More? by Joseph A. Gangi. Online, pdf. .puz.
USA Today: Three 6 by Erik Agard. Online, .pdf, app.
Vox: by Patrick Blindauer. .pdf, online.
The Wall Street Journal: Stress Test by Vasu Seralathan. Online, .pdf. .puz.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Andrew White & Pete Muller. Online, .pdf.

Redhead64: PUZZLE #429: Puzzle in the Round 6 .pdf.
Steve’s Cryptic Crosswords: Puzzle 310 by Steve Townsend. Online.
Team Crazy Cryptics: Puzzle No. 80: A Citizen of the World by teamcrazymatt. Online.

Financial Times: FT Crossword: Number 17,350 by Bobcat. .pdf.
The Globe and Mail: The Daily Cryptic Crossword. .pdf, online.
The Guardian: Cryptic crossword No 29,010 by Carpathian. .pdf, online.
The Hindu Cryptic: #13805 by Arden. .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword by Gila. .pdf, online.

Other American-style crosswords:

Reviews and Discussion at Diary of a Crossword Fiend | Boatload Puzzles/AARP | Crosshare | CrosswordsBackwards | Cruciverbalista (en español) | Dictionaries6 | Easy Crossword | FreeDailyCrosswords | GameLab | Hard Crossword | r/crossword | Squares.io | YourPuzzleSource | XWord-Muggles Meta Calendar

Other Cryptic/Variety crosswords:

A Frame Games | cf.kmbweb.de Links Library | 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

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Black Crossword: Mini by Juliana Pache. .pdf, online.
The Columbia Spectator: Daily Mini: 3/2/23 by Reena Bromberg Gaber. .puz, .pdf, online.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
Crosswords Schmosswords: try a little tenderness by kate chin park. .puz, .pdf, online.
The Daily Princetonian: Anything Left? (Mini) by Dylan Epstein-Gross. Online.
Grids These Days: EnigMarch Day 1 by Paolo Pasco. .puz, .pdf, online.
Jeff’s Puzzles: Venn Mini 4 by Jeff Linder. .puz, .pdf
Jonesin’: “Sports Roundtable”–it rings true. by Matt Jones. .puz, .pdf, online.
Lexicon Devil: Enigmarch 2023 Day 1: KEY by Richard D. Allen. Online.
M & M Crosswords: Hear Me Roar by Martina Waluk. .pdf, online.
Matt’s Word: Not That Kind of Ent by Matt Forest. .puz, .pdf, online.
MEOW: Fruit Loops (Meta) by Joshua Rubin. .puz, .pdf, online.
YourPuzzleSource: Daily Puzzle (Midi) by Phil Fraas. .pdf, online.

ClassiCanadian Crosswords: ($) Fatal Error by Barb Olson. Subscribe at link.
Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: March 2, 2023 by Quiara Vasquez. .pdf, online.
Fireball: ($) Star-Crossed Lovers by Damon Gulczynski. Subscribe at link.
Morning Brew: Brew Mini: Tangled by Mary Tobler .pdf, online.
No-Feet McGee: ($) Think Negatively (Meta) by No-Feet McGee. Subscribe at link.
Planet Crossword: Moves to the Front by Stella Zawistowski. Online.

The Atlantic Mini: by Paolo Pasco. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: Top 40 Thursday by Andrea Carla Michaels and Doug Peterson. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Midi Puzzle by David Steinberg. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Mini Puzzle by Zhouqin Burnikel. App Store | Google Play
Daily Beast: 007 Is 55, Thur, Mar 2, 2023 by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
Daily POP Crosswords: by Robin Stears. App Store | Google Playonline.
Los Angeles Times: by Joe Hansen. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
Los Angeles Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Modern Crossword: Thursday, March 02, 2023 by Anna Gundlach. Online, .pdf.
New York Sun: ($) Warrior by Byron Walden. Reissues from 2003.
New York Times: ($) by Malaika Handa. Online, .pdf, app.
New York Times Mini: by Joel Fagliano. Online, app.
The New Yorker: The Crossword: Thursday, March 2, 2023 by Robyn Weintraub. .pdf, online.
Newsday: Double Cross by Fred Piscop. Online, .pdfbackup online.
The Telegraph: Cross Atlantic by Russell Henwood. Online.
Universal: Working-Class Hero by Desiree Penner and Jeff Sinnock. Online, pdf. .puz.
USA Today: Set to the Side by Brooke Husic. Online, .pdf, app.
Vox: by Will Nediger. .pdf, online.
Vulture 10×10: The Short King Puzzle by Malaika Handa. .pdf, online.
The Wall Street Journal: Coast to Coast by Brian Rom & Jeff Chen. Online, .pdf. .puz.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Andrew White & Pete Muller. Online, .pdf.

AVCX Cryptic: ($) by Katherine Bryant. Subscribe at link.
A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog: Wordy Wednesday 526: Section Six 52 by Grant Fikes .pdf
Tales From The Cryptic: Cryptic Mini #000000012: “IP Freely” (7×7 ) by Bob Weisz. .pdf, online.

Contingencies: Out of Play by Bob Fink and Jerry Miccolis. Online.
Financial Times: FT Crossword: Number 17,347 by PHSSTHPOK. .pdf.
The Globe and Mail: The Daily Cryptic Crossword. .pdf, online.
The Guardian: Cryptic crossword No 29,007 by Pasquale. .pdf, online.
The Hindu Cryptic: 13802 by Gussalufz. .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword by Lark. .pdf, online.
New Scientist: ($) Cryptic crossword #104 by Wingding. Subscribe at link.
The Spectator: ($) 2594 by La Jerezana. Subscribe at link.

Other American-style crosswords:

Reviews and Discussion at Diary of a Crossword Fiend | Boatload Puzzles/AARP | Crosshare | CrosswordsBackwards | Cruciverbalista (en español) | Dictionaries6 | Easy Crossword | FreeDailyCrosswords | GameLab | Hard Crossword | r/crossword | Squares.io | YourPuzzleSource | XWord-Muggles Meta Calendar

Other Cryptic/Variety crosswords:

A Frame Games | cf.kmbweb.de Links Library | 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

A jam-packed Crossworld News and Notes

Boswords 2023 Winter Wondersolve takes place February 5 beginning at 1:00pm ET. Registration opens January 21. We are excited about the event’s roster of constructors: Rebecca Goldstein, Damon Gulczynski, Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, and Joanne Sullivan.

Boswords has also released the roster for the 2023 Spring Themeless League, to take place in March and April: Ashton Anderson & James Mulhern, Kate Hawkins, Jenna LaFleur, Adrian Johnson, Hemant Mehta, Rafael Musa, Carly Schuna, Nancy Serrano-Wu, and one constructor to be chosen from an open submission process.

We’re looking forward to the smaller (and free!) second annual St. Louis Crossword Puzzle Tournament on March 4 with puzzles by Shannon Rapp and Patrick Blindauer.

The 45th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, CT is March 31 – April 2. Registration and hotel reservations are open now.

We hear word of two charity packs coming soon for our solving pleasure. Grids For Kids is a pack of 25 family-friendly puzzles launching in February. Shortly to follow will be the third round of These Puzzles Fund Abortion in March.

Among the changes at Crucinova under new management is the addition of a free monthly midi by editor Quiara Vasquez. The first one, “Good Housekeeping” (which actually verges on full-sized) we found delightful. Quiara is eager to entertain new queries from constructors of all levels of experience. Submit your ideas by email.

Secret Snowflake is an indie project coordinated by Rose Sloan and David Glasser in which constructors were randomly matched with each other to create custom puzzles. Not all of the thirty puzzles were released publicly, but here are a some that were: Litter Boxes by Lyle Broughton, January Stumper by Ada Nicolle, Costume Party by jseakle, Season’s Greetings by Rose Sloan, A PUZZLE FOR @TlMBERWOLVES by Paolo Pasco , Secret Snowflake Themeless by Max, Secret Snowflake by Christopher Adams, and Santa Puzzle 2022 by Xylo. (If we missed any, please drop them in the comments!)

In books, “Will Must Send Regrets: 101 Rejected Crossword Puzzles and the Stories Behind Them” by Damon Gulczynski is a new take on puzzle books; the puzzles are all past submissions to the New York Times, rejected. With “constructor notes and loosely tangential anecdotes, the puzzles tell a humorous, two-decade tale of repeated but endearing failure.” I’ve already gotten a copy, and while I haven’t solved the puzzles, I’m already hoping this is the first of a genre in the crossword scene.

Have we mentioned Stella Zawistowski’s coming book? I thought we must have, but maybe not (apologies if we have!) Bearing the title of her themeless-focused blog, “Tough As Nails Crosswords” features 72 “extra-challenging” grids from Stella. Preorders are open now, for a release on 28 March – just in time for ACPT.

P&A Magazine Issue 98 titled “X” is out now.

Congratulations to Hoang-Kim Vu, who has joined the editing team at AVCX+.

Congratulations to Jeff Chen, who as joined the team at Andrews McMeel Universal and will be the editor of Universal Sunday Crossword. Along with this news, Universal has announced they are now accepting submissions with a wider range of features. As always, we recommend constructors consult Matthew Stock’s spec sheet sheet for the most up-to-date submission specifications.

Creating Crossword Puzzles” is a course taught by Brooke Husic and Natan Last in cooperation with Atlas Obscura. The next offering of the course begins March 28 with four weekly sessions over Zoom. The content is intended for very new constructors and those who are interested in how crosswords are made. Reduced price tickets are available. The last session’s co-constructed puzzle, “Marvel, Extended Universe” is solvable online.

Hayley Gold’s next monthly cryptic stream is set for 9pm eastern on Wed., Jan. 18th. Hayley, Will and Al will be joined by special guests from the cryptic outlet The Rackenfracker.

New York Times Associate puzzle editor and Wordle editor Tracy Bennett appeared on the TODAY show to discuss her work with Wordle.

We enjoyed reading “Yesterday and tomorrow in puzzles“, a 2022 round up in “Puzzle Buzz”, the newsletter from amuselabs. Some of our favorite outlets across the community, new and old, got nice callouts for their work.

We mentioned “Outside the Blocks: A Puzzle Podcast” from Emma Oxford and Will Pfadenhauer of Pandora’s Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword when they launched in 2022. The newest episode includes an interview with Mike Dirolf, aka “mike d” aka “The Crosshare Guy.” (Sneak peek: we get a definitive answer as to how “crosshare” is pronounced.)


And some updates from the inside: We are pleased to welcome Rich Iurilli to the DCL team! You can expect to see him contribute to some daily emails and News and Notes. We’ve also been continuing to add new features to the site: More Puzzles, a listing of sites that have been dormant long enough that we don’t keep an eye on them anymore but are still full of puzzling entertainment; the beginnings of a community calendar, and a bit About Us. We also want to hear from you – if you have an idea about something you’d like to see us offer or have feedback about any of our features, please let us know.

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Club 72: Well? (Themeless) by Adam Aaronson. .puz, .pdf.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
Jonesin’: “Catch Me If You Can”–you’ve fallen for my trap! by Matt Jones. .puz, .pdf, online.
M & M Crosswords: Letters and Numbers by Martina Waluk. .pdf, online.
Puzz-up: Happy Holidays 2022 by Laura Taylor Kinnel. Online.

ClassiCanadian Crosswords: ($) The Water is Rising by Barb Olson. Subscribe at link.
Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: December 29, 2022 by Erica Hsiung Wojcik. .pdf, online.
Planet Crossword: Review Themeless by Taylor Johnson. Online.

The Atlantic Mini: by Paolo Pasco. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: by Caitlin Reid. App Store | Google Play
Daily Beast: American Adventure, Wed Dec. 28, 2022 by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
Daily POP Crosswords: by Janice Luttrell. App Store | Google Playonline.
Los Angeles Times: by Damon Gulczynski. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
LA Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Modern Crossword: Thursday, December 29, 2022 by Anna Gundlach. Online, .pdf.
New York Sun: ($) Tight End by Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon. Reissues from 2003.
New York Times: ($) by Claire Rimkus and Rachel Fabi. Online, .pdf, app.
New York Times Mini: by Tracy Bennett. Online, app.
The New Yorker: The Crossword: Thursday, December 29, 2022 by Elizabeth C. Gorski. .pdf, online.
Newsday: At the Table by Bruce Venzke. Online, .pdfbackup online.
Universal: From Beginning to End by Gary Larson and Amy Ensz. Online, pdf. .puz.
USA Today: Movie Endings by Brooke Husic. Online, .pdf, app.
Vox: by Will Nediger. .pdf, online.
Vulture 10×10: The Alethiometer Puzzle by Stella Zawistowski. .pdf, online.
The Wall Street Journal: Poof! by Alan DerKazarian. Online, .pdf. .puz.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Andrew White & Pete Muller. Online, .pdf.

Aries Puzzles: Snowflake #2 by Andrew J. Ries. 
A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog: Diagramless Crossword 10 & Pent Words 103 by Grant Fikes .pdf
The Crossword Centre: Crossword Centre Prize Puzzle January 2023 by Vismut. .pdf

Financial Times: FT Crossword: Number 17,291 by Gurney. .pdf.
The Globe and Mail: The Daily Cryptic Crossword. .pdf, online.
The Guardian: Cryptic crossword No 28,953 by Paul. .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword by Bluebird. .pdf, online.
New Scientist: ($) Quick crossword #123 by Richard Smyth. Subscribe at link.

Other American-style crosswords:

Reviews and Discussion at Diary of a Crossword Fiend | Boatload Puzzles/AARP | Crosshare | CrosswordsBackwards | Cruciverbalista (en español) | Dictionaries6 | Easy Crossword | FreeDailyCrosswords | GameLab | Hard Crossword | r/crossword | Squares.io | YourPuzzleSource | XWord-Muggles Meta Calendar

Other Cryptic/Variety crosswords:

A Frame Games | cf.kmbweb.de Links Library | 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