Crosswords, cryptics, & word puzzles
A long list of crossword publications. Contact me with corrections or links that you'd like to see included.
Crosswords
Daily
Weekly or Biweekly
- AVCX
- Brendan Emmett Quigley
- Matt Gaffney’s Weekly Contest
- WashPo Sunday Crossword, by Evan Birnholz
- The Inkubator, puzzles by women
- Fireball Crosswords
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Tim Croce’s Club 72
- Bewilderingly by Will Nediger
- Monday Fills by Dave Murchie
- David Alfred Bywaters’ Crossword Cavalcade
- Outside the Box by Joon Pahk
- Aries Puzzles
- Sid's Grids by Sid Sivakumar
- Puzzles that Need a Home by Brian Thomas
Monthly or longer
Collections for sale
Cryptic crosswords
More entry-level
- Kegler's Kryptics
- Tales from the Cryptic (mini grids)
More advanced
- The Nation by Kosman & Picciotto
- The Independent
- Financial Times
- The Guardian
- Kevin Wald's cryptics
- Quiptics
Visit our Tools page for tips on how to solve cryptics.
Other grid & variety puzzles
- Acrostics by Cyn
- Monday Fills Acrostics
- Garden Party crosswords: Rows Gardens puzzles
- WSJ variety puzzles
- Puzzles for Progress
Blogs, tournaments, etc.
Blogs
- Rex Parker
- NYTimes' WordPlay
- Diary of a Crossword Fiend by Erik Agard
- Neville Fogarty
- Crossword Nation by Elizabeth Gorski
- Eric Berlin
- L.A. Times Crossword Corner
- Pat Tricks by Patrick Merrell
- Big Dave’s Telegraph Blog
- Fifteensquared
- Indie puzzle round-up on Bewilderingly
- Redhead64's Obscure Puzzle Blog
Tournaments
- American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (Philly)
- Lollapuzzoola (New York)
- Midwest Crossword Tournament (Chicago)
- Westwords (SF)
- Boswords (Boston)
Solving platform
- Crosshare — a "place to create, share and solve crossword puzzles"
- Puzzazz.com
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