Tag: Pixlate

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

BEQ: Themeless Monday #707 by Brendan Emmett Quigley. .puz, .pdf, online.
Black Crossword: Mini by Juliana Pache. .pdf, online.
Brian Gubin: Call It Off by Brian Gubin. .puz, .pdf.
⟪Clever Name Here⟫: You Cannot Have… by David B Ritterskamp. .jpz, .pdf, online.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
The Griddle: The Megacorporation Puzzle by Spencer Leach. .pdf, online.
LuterCross: Puzzle ’85 by Matthew Luter. .pdf, .puz, online.
Metas On A Tuesday: January 26th (Meta) by benchen71. .puz, .pdf, online.
Muggle Meta Mondays: Aye Aye, Captain! (Meta) by Capn Rick. .puz, .pdf.
Olio Grids: What am I (Eating)? by Brian Callahan. .pdf, online.
YourPuzzleSource: Daily Puzzle (Midi) by Phil Fraas. .pdf, online.

Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: January 24, 2023 by Kelsey Dixon. .pdf, online.
Crossword Nation: ($) Opening Movements by Elizabeth C. Gorski. Subscribe at link.
Lil AVC X: ($) Making a Splash by Olivia Mitra Framke. Subscribe at link.
Morning Brew: Brew Mini: Console by Mary Tobler .pdf, online.
Planet Crossword: Success Themeless by Zhouqin Burnikel. Online.

The Atlantic Mini: by Paolo Pasco. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: TV Tuesday by Andy Kravis. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Midi Puzzle by Patrick Berry. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Mini Puzzle by Robyn Weintraub. App Store | Google Play
Daily Beast: Shining Like a National Guitar, Tue, Jan 24, 2023 by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
Daily POP Crosswords: by Beth Rubin. App Store | Google Play, online.
Los Angeles Times: by Rebecca Goldstein. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
Los Angeles Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Modern Crossword: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 by Amanda Rafkin. Online, .pdf.
New York Sun: ($) Addendum by Mel Taub. Reissues from 2003.
New York Times: ($) by Aaron M. Rosenberg and Jeff Chen. Online, .pdf, app.
New York Times Mini: by Joel Fagliano. Online, app.
The New Yorker: The Crossword: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 by Erik Agard. .pdf, online.
Newsday: Eggy by Billie Truitt. Online, .pdf, backup online.
The Telegraph: Cross Atlantic by James Brydon. Online.
Universal: The Parent Trap by Samantha Podos Nowak. Online, pdf. .puz.
USA Today: Three MC’s and One DJ by Kelsey Dixon. Online, .pdf, app.
Vox: by Juliana Tringali Golden. .pdf, online.
Vulture 10×10: The Rocky Puzzle by Stella Zawistowski. .pdf, online.
The Wall Street Journal: Brief Resumes by Bill Thompson. Online, .pdf. .puz.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Andrew White & Pete Muller. Online, .pdf.

Aries Puzzles: ($) Rows Garden #10.4 by Andrew J. Ries. Subscribe at link.
Garden Party: ($) Rows Garden #6.4 by Michael Blake. Subscribe at link.
Keynesian Cryptics: Battered Fish by Jack H Keynes. .pdf, online.
Monday Fills Acrostics: Acrostic 190 by Dave Murchie. .pdf, online.
Outside The Box: ($) Cascades by Joe DiPietro. Subscribe at link.
Outside The Box: ($) Rows Garden #8.19 by joon pahk. Subscribe at link.
Pixlate’s Puzzles: Show’s Over by Pixlate. .pdf, online.

Financial Times: FT Crossword: Number 17,313 by GURNEY. .pdf.
The Globe and Mail: The Daily Cryptic Crossword. .pdf, online.
The Guardian: Cryptic crossword No 28,975 by Brummie. .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword by Tees. .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

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Aaronson.org: Look Both Ways (themeless) by Adam Aaronson. .puz, .pdf, online.
BEQ: Themeless Monday #706 by Brendan Emmett Quigley. .puz, .pdf, online.
Bewilderingly: We’re Everywhere by Will Nediger. .puz, .pdf, online.
Brian Gubin: PB&J by Brian Gubin. .puz, .pdf.
⟪Clever Name Here⟫: Almost There by David B Ritterskamp. .jpz, .pdf, online.
Crosshare Community: Daily Mini and Featured Puzzles.
LuterCross: Theme-Free in 2023 by Matthew Luter. .pdf, .puz, online.
Metas On A Tuesday: Better Together (Meta) by benchen71. .puz, .pdf, online.
Muggle Meta Mondays: The Plot Thickens (Meta) by Alex Sisti. .puz, .pdf.
Olio Grids: Watering Hole by Brian Callahan. .pdf, online.
YourPuzzleSource: Daily Puzzle (Midi) by Phil Fraas. .pdf, online.

Crossword Club: Daily Crossword: January 17, 2023 by Kelsey Dixon. .pdf, online.
Crossword Nation: ($) Totally Ri-diculous! by Elizabeth C. Gorski. Subscribe at link.
Lil AVC X: ($) Up in Flames by Will Eisenberg. Subscribe at link.
Luckystreak+: ($) puzzle #111: got your nose (themeless) by Ada Nicolle. Subscribe at link.
Morning Brew: Brew Mini: Fab by Mary Tobler .pdf, online.
Planet Crossword: Animalistic Themeless by Emet Ozar. Online.

The Atlantic Mini: by Paolo Pasco. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: TV Tuesday by Peter Wentz. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Midi Puzzle by Robyn Weintraub. App Store | Google Play
Crosswords with Friends: Mini Puzzle by Zhouqin Burnikel. App Store | Google Play
Daily Beast: Love Game, Tue, Jan 17, 2023 by Matt Gaffney. .pdf, online.
Daily POP Crosswords: by Alan Olschwang. App Store | Google Play, online.
Los Angeles Times: by Rebecca Goldstein. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
Los Angeles Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Modern Crossword: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 by Erik Agard. Online, .pdf.
New York Sun: ($) Warrior by Matt Jones. Reissues from 2003.
New York Times: ($) by Erika Ettin. Online, .pdf, app.
New York Times Mini: by Joel Fagliano. Online, app.
The New Yorker: The Crossword: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 by Patrick Berry. .pdf, online.
Newsday: Then, Now & Then by Billie Truitt. Online, .pdf, backup online.
The Telegraph: Cross Atlantic by James Brydon. Online.
Universal: There’s a Twist! by Taylor Johnson. Online, pdf. .puz.
USA Today: Divided Nation by Zhouqin Burnikel. Online, .pdf, app.
Vox: by Juliana Tringali Golden. .pdf, online.
Vulture 10×10: The Zombie Puzzle by Malaika Handa. .pdf, online.
The Wall Street Journal: Speed Reading by Ella Dershowitz. Online, .pdf. .puz.
Washington Post Daily Mini Meta: by Andrew White & Pete Muller. Online, .pdf.

Aries Puzzles: ($) Rows Garden #10.3 by Andrew J. Ries. Subscribe at link.
BEQ Marching Bands: ($) BEQ MARCHING BANDS YEAR 8, #20 by Brendan Emmett Quigley. Subscribe at link.
Garden Party: ($) Rows Garden #6.3 by Michael Blake. Subscribe at link.
Keynesian Cryptics: Diminished Fifth by Jack H Keynes. .pdf, online.
Outside The Box: ($) Rows Garden #8.18 by joon pahk. Subscribe at link.
Pixlate’s Puzzles: Variety Cryptic 3: Keep Solving and Nobody Explodes by Pixlate. .pdf, online.

Financial Times: FT Crossword: Number 17,307 by SLORMGORM. .pdf.
The Globe and Mail: The Daily Cryptic Crossword. .pdf, online.
The Guardian: Cryptic crossword No 28,969 by Boatman. .pdf, online.
The Independent: Cryptic Crossword by Crosophile. .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

Crossworld News and Notes, November 2022

“Across and Down” is a CBC documentary that follows a set of constructors as they fight to improve representation in crosswords. Constructors featured are Tass and Lita Williams, Natan Last, Nancy Serrano-Wu, Soleil St-Cyr, Ross Trudeau, and Nate Cardin. While the documentary is currently not available outside Canada, the accompanying articles “Seven crossword constructors fighting for better representation in the beloved puzzle” and “Bias in crosswords: how women, people of colour and LGBTQIA+ communities are overlooked” provide a bit of a sneak peek. We’re happy to see Queer Qrosswords, Women of Letters, and The Inkubator mentioned.

In digging up more about “Across and Down” we found an old, but excellent, article from the Halifax Examiner featuring Tass and Lita Williams and the making of culturally significant crosswords.

Celia Mattison, writing for Catapult Magazine in “Why I Started Writing Crossword Puzzles” describes her experience in redefining what “common knowledge” can be in crosswords.

From cryptic streamer Hayley Gold: “This month’s cryptic stream (featuring guests Ryan McCarty, Derek Allen, and No-Feet McGee — plus the boring regulars: Will Nediger, Al Sanders, and Two-Feet Hayley —though technically one is broken) will be on Friday, November 18 at 9 pm Eastern. Come one, come all for a cornucopia of classic cryptics, because that’s the only thing I’m thankful for.  Go to twitch.tv/bewilderingly to watch, or catch the VOD afterward for only 7 days (twitch lowered the number of days, so just come to the live show so ya don’t have to worry about it!)”

Congratulations to the new members of the Lil AVC X editing team for 2023: Derek Allen, Kavin Pawittranon, Kelsey Dixon, Ken Stern, No-Feet McGee, Olivia Mitra Framke, Rafael Musa, Rose Sloan, Sally Hoelscher, Sara Cantor, Steve Mossberg, and Will Eisenberg. We are so excited for the puzzles to come from this amazing lineup!

Lil AVC X is also recruiting constructors for the 2023 roster. Applications are due November 21.

Congratulations to Ada Nicolle who has joined the team at Crossword Club as both an editor and constructor.

Autostraddle, a progressive, feminist, LGBTQIA+ digital publication has begun offering crossword puzzles that center queer content. Puzzles so far are written by Brooke Husic and Rachel Fabi, with more constructors to come. Three mini puzzles each week are free to all, and a midi crossword is published Saturdays exclusively for Autostraddle’s A+ members.

A new crop of puzzle sources has come to our attention lately. We’re happy to share these in the Daily Links, but we also want to recommend them to our News and Notes readers. In standard crosswords we have learned of Completing the Square by Carter, Crossword Dilemmas by Emma Lawson, and Quid Pro by Andrew Anker; and in cryptics, Pix Puzzles by Pixlate and The Buzzle Blog by Celise. We have also started including The Chicago Maroon by University of Chicago students.

We’re also enjoying the work of Taylor Johnson and the ongoing suite of Lemonade Disco puzzles. Constructors of all experienced levels are encouraged to submit ideas. On the 17th of each month a new pack is released and the new prompt is announced.

Since the last News & Notes, Caryn L. Robbins (10/17), Rafael Musa (10/21), Joe Rodini (10/24), Nick Shephard (10/25), Ethan Zou (11/2), Juliet Corless (11/4), Jill Singer (11/6) made their NYT debuts! Congrats to everyone! Check out some of their other work we have enjoyed: Rafa’s AVCX+ “Can We Solve It? Yes We Can!” (with Kate Chin Park), Juliet’s work with The Daily Princetonian, Jill’s Spyscape “Inside Jobs“.

Thank you to our friends at the Fill Me In podcast, who in recent weeks have hosted a variety of guests to discuss topics in crossworld. Check out these episodes if you missed them: Rachel Fabi and Neville Fogarty talk about their work in making, solving, and streaming cryptic crosswords; Kate Chin Park and Will Eisenberg share their interesting origin stories; our own Matthew Gritzmacher discusses the history and future of Daily Crossword Links; and our own Shannon Rapp reviews some of her favorite indie puzzles over the last couple of months.

The New York Times is accepting applications for the second class of their Diverse Crossword Constructor Fellowship. Submissions open through December 1.

Beginning November 23 through January 3, 2023, The New York Times is accepting Sunday-size submissions only, directly by email to crosswordeditors@nytimes.com. All other submissions are closed until after January 3.

Have a news tip for us? An idea to pitch? A puzzle or puzzle site to share? Let us know!