Will Shortz
- Will Shortz's Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle heard every week on National Public Radio, with your host, Liane Hansen
- New York Times Daily puzzle edited by Will Shortz. Forum moderated by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon. Plus, Ray Hamel prepares a new trivia quiz twice a week.
On-Line Newspaper Crosswords
- Boston Globe Crossword Daily crossword from the Boston Globe
- Los Angeles Times Access is free; daily, sunday puzzles, plus more
- Newsday edited by former Tournament champion Stanley Newman
- New York Sun Edited by Peter Gordon. Click "Crosswords" in the left navigation bar
- New York Times See above
- The Sydney Morning Herald Good cryptic and other puzzles
- USA TODAY Puzzles from the Newspaper
- Wall Street Journal Crossword Archive Wall Street Journal Crossword Archive
- Washington Post created by CrosSynergy Syndicate puzzles
- Yahoo Crosswords created by CrosSynergy Syndicate puzzles
Dictionaries and Solving aids
Unified Resources
- OneAcross Crossword Clue Search and Anagram Finder. Terrific resource!
- Quinapalus.com Free cruciverbal software and shareware, including comprehensive free on-line word matcher for completing crosswords.
- FindTheWord.info FindTheWord.info is a search engine for english words. All searches are made in a dictionary containing more than 450,000 english words. FindTheWord.info seaches for partial words (both crossword solver and part of word), anagrams and palindromes.
Crossword Dictionaries
- The Online Crossword Dictionary XwordDictionary.com: The most powerfull Crossword Dictionary on the net! Let you search by clue or pattern.
- Sunday Express General Knowledge Crossword Java application to help solve this particular crossword.
Anagram Solvers: Type in "crossword tournament" — get back "term to run across/down"
- the Anagram Engine
- Anagram Genius Server
- Anagram Insanity
- Anagram Logic Type in any word or name, and get back shorter words formed from those letters or play an anagram word game where you try to find pairs of words using crossword puzzle clues.
- Anagram Server
- Andy's Anagram Solver
- Brendan's On-Line Anagram Generator
- Errata Among Range (Anagram Generator) A powerful anagram generator with multiple options.
- Lexigram — anagram solver Free online anagram solver with some advanced features.
Crossword Finishers: Type in "cr__swo_d" and get back "crossword"
- CrosswordCheats.com A small site to help you complete crosswords.
- Crossword Helper
- Crossword Puzzle Solver A cool online tool which helps you solving crossword puzzles.
- Crosswords.eu.com Free Crossword solver on the Internet
- Logos Dictionary
Acronyms
- Acronym Finder
- Acronym and Abbreviation Server Same deal, this time with acronyms
Dictionaries and More...
- AllWords Online Dictionary and Language Portal with Crossword Solver
- B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper which is a links page to hundreds of useful references online
- Easton's Bible Dictionary
- Famous People Factual Information about Famous People — Crossword Solving specific, includes Actors, Actresses, Composers, Painters, Singers & Writers
- Dictionary of Computing
- onelook Dictionary Search
- Internet Dictionary Project English-French
- Latin Grammar Aid and Wordlist
- Lyrics
- Merriam-Webster Lookup dictionary Just type in a word and it returns the definition
- Online Talking Dictionary Dictionarist provides translations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean dictionaries.
- Roget's Thesaurus Type in a word ... you know, understand, intuit what it returns
- PuzzleHelp can be used to solve and create all kinds of word puzzles like crossword, crypto etc. It has a word list of over 330.000 words.
- Wordage.info A free tool for word discovery. In other words, a terrific thesaurus!
- Zebra Words Definitions from an assortment of other sources
American crosswords
- abdpbt This is a blog that offers the NY Times Crossword daily. It is the syndicated version of the puzzle, so it runs about six weeks behind the print edition. It is fully licensed by the NY Times Syndicate and free to all site visitors.
- AmberSoft Puzzles Free daily crosswords puzzles for your enjoyment.
- Crossword Puzzle Games Enjoy the many online crossword puzzles or create your own. Word puzzle helper also available.
- (non-cryptic) Crossword Solver The (non-cryptic) CrossWord Solver Free email (non-cryptic) Crossword Solving service (from Australian)
- FirstScience.com Daily Crossword
- Fun! Crosswords written to accompany articles (with links to them). Nice job!
- The GardenWeb Crossword Puzzle Yes, a puzzle for gardeners!
- grosswords.com These are humorous, topical puzzles that push the envelope. A little randy.
- Hexaword Hexagonal Crossword Puzzle — by Ian Tresman, a UK constructor.
- Kentucky Crosswords on the Web Offers a free online Kentucky Crossword puzzle. Operates in a Java applet.
- Merl Reagle's Sunday Crosswords The master puzzler rules
- Monogram on Crosswords A wonderful exploration from barelybad!
- New Word Games New Word Games — Exclusive Changing Charades. Daily crossword, sudoku, kakuro. Word Searches and intelligent games.
- The Puzzle Depot
- Puzzle Choice Twenty different types of crosswords to choose from plus wordsearches, quizzes, number puzzles, cryptograms, anagrams, brainteasers, logics, java puzzles and games
- Triple Play Puzzles Trip Payne's professional website, with original puzzles, information about his books, and much more.
- WordFit.com Daily Word Puzzles Daily printable crossword and fill in puzzles, plus a daily interactive crossword and printable Spanish, Swedish and French fill ins.
Java/Flash Puzzles
- Computer Renju A strong Java Renju/Go-Moku game. Free to play online.
- CrosswordLovers.com Daily Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku, Word Search and Other Games
- Daily Crossword There are better java programs, but he gets points for enthusiasm!
- Garfield Games Crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and more. Free.
- gameszoo.org Great free java games online: tetris, pac-man, arkanoid, mahjong and many others ... just CLICK'N'PLAY!
- Jumbletime JumbleTime is a free online, multi-player word game site devoted to timed jumbled words games. Includes two daily challenge games that present one chance to solve a new set of 24 jumbles each day. You must register to play.
- KrosswordKings You can make your own crosswords and play other peoples as well as the official KrosswordKings ones. It tracks scores based on your performance, with many highscore tables to compete for.
- Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun Interactive Crossword Puzzles If you like crossword puzzles, this online game is just for you. This unique Flash game has 33 topics with over 4,635 words and clues. Each topic has two levels: one to challenge younger students and one for older students / adults. Each time you play the game, the system randomly selects words from the chosen topic and creates a unique puzzle grid. The built-in print function allows you to print a puzzle for playing off-line. Teachers can also print the puzzle already solved, to use as an answer key. Both kids and adults will find this game entertaining and educational.
- Merriam-Webster's Daily Crossword Enhanced features include the ability to save and print your puzzle.
- Online Jigsaw Puzzles A site for jigsaw puzzle lovers. There are online jigsaw puzles, as well as downloadable puzzles.
- Puzzability It's a promotional piece ... it's a game-player's delight ... it's both! Mike Shenk, Amy Goldstein, and Robert Leighton, three former editors from the glory days of Games Magazine, bring their magic to the net. The puzzles are super (gee, big surprise, eh!)
- Puzzle Gems High-quality Free Online and Downloadable Puzzle Games.
- Sue Gleason's Double Crostic Puzzle Page
- Thinks.com "The brain games, puzzles and pastimes website." It's a puzzle portal with all the stuff — postcards, toys, books, sounds, shopping, contests — and a daily crossword and word-find.
Cryptic Crosswords
- Apex is the master of the witty clue and the challenging cryptic crossword puzzle. Learn about his annual competitions and tackle his puzzles
- The Atlantic Puzzler Click on "The Puzzler." Available only to Atlantic subscribers.
- Clue-Solving for Beginners The Atlantic presents How to Solve Cryptics from Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
- The Crossword Centre The best UK site for tough cryptic crosswords. Monthly competitions, message board, mailing list and free software. The Crossword Utility is a neat piece of software for designing crossword grids and it is free.
- Crossword Crazy Free daily online cryptic crossword, cryptic crossword tutorial, and more.
- dowedo New crossword software including an Crosswords, Online Crossword Compiler, Find and Fit and Thesaurus
- Enigmatist Crosswords and quizzes for the enthusiast. Cryptic crosswords from popular UK setters including Enigmatist, Araucaria, Bunthorne, Smithers, Paul, John and many more. There is also a monthly 'Challenge' subscription quiz & Pub Quizzes.
- Electronic Telegraph cryptic crossword. Scroll to the bottom of the homepage and click on the "Crosswords" link.
- The Globe and Mail Newspaper Daily cryptic puzzle Mon-Sat.
- Guardian Daily Crossword Online version of the daily print crosswords — both cryptic and quick. My favourite is Araucaria's all too rare Alphabetical Jigsaw whose clues are in verse, and have no grid entry numbers. Looks impossible, easier than it looks, a joy to finish.
- Kegler's Kryptics One variety bar-style cryptic and one standard block-style cryptic posted the first of each month.
- London Daily Telegraph Excelent cryptic puzzle requiring some knowledge of contemporary British idioms and goings on.
- London Times Interactive Daily Crossword . Just put in any user name and solve online or print out and solve on paper.
- Peter's Cryptic Crossword Corner Site about cryptic puzzles by a winner of the Times Crossword Championship, nearest equivalent to ACPT in the UK in terms of prestige and press coverage. Includes a page about the Times Championship, and a links to solving blogs for the Times, Guardian and Independent puzzles.
- Squizz's Cryptic Crosswords A collection of cryptic crosswords in Across Lite format.
- Ximenes Crosswords , the great founder of the cryptic puzzle, is given a fitting and wonderful tribute in this website from Derek Harrison
Crisscross style (with clues)
- americanpresident.com presents an interactive puzzle about... the President of the U.S.
- Crosswording — Unlimited free crossword puzzles! Crosswording has unlimited free crossword puzzles. Solve online or print for your enjoyment.
- clutu Crosswords you can play online with your friends
- CompuCrissCross Challenging drag and drop word game. More than 2 billion unique crisscross puzzles for Windows 95, 98, or ME.
- Mystery Crossword Puzzles Crisscross puzzles based on several dozen mystery novels.
- RangeNet Crossword Puzzles Free interactive and printable crossword puzzles. Public Lands Environmental Themes. Permission to reprint granted, plus RTF files on request for newsletters.
Sudoku
- Free Sudoku puzzles online easy and expert Free easy and expert sudoku puzzles online. This site also has a free soduoku puzzle generator and workpad. Also, quality 9x9 and even 16x16 puzzles are listed. Sudoku, a seemingly simple numbers game, has become the biggest puzzle craze to hit the world since Rubik's Cube.
- Gerts Sudoku Sudoku online and available for printing.
- Panda Sudoku Play free, online, auto-generated Sudoku, with a friendly web interface.
- Sudoku League Online Sudoku Tournament. Compare your sudoku skills with others, discuss and enjoy. All for free!
- Sudoku 9981 Sudoku puzzle game for Windows,with the color marking function and specific method to control candidate number,you can use the advanced techniques of sudoku more conveniently.
- Sudoku Mania Solve a sudoku every day and advance in the listing of the best "sudokers" in the world
- Sudoku Puzzle Software The Ultimate sudoku software for the sudoku addict! Dozens of great features for the beginner to pro.
- Sudoku Solver Shows you step by step how it was solved.
Other puzzles and diversions
- Alexander Bogomolny's Mathematical Diversions
- All Jigsaw Puzzles Over 350 popular and hard to find jigsaw puzzles in the UK (from beginner to expert 1,000+ piece challenges)!
- American Cribbage Congress Cribbage--a game for the number half of your brain! The website of the world's #1 cribbage organization lists upcoming tournaments, current standings, rules of play, and much more.
- Bible Crossword Puzzles Old Testament and New Testaments Crossword Bible Puzzles, some 259 crosswords one for each chapter and book of new testament.
- Biblewordgames Free monthly Bible crossword puzzle plus wordsearches, quotefalls and on-line games
- 'Blank'- The game of long words A new game that uses exactly the same mental processes used when trying to complete an unfinished crossword clue. But, you try to think of as many words as possible that would fit with the sequence of letters and blanks given. The longer the word, the more points scored.
- Card decks of original word challenges by Will Shortz
- Crossword Greeting Cards! Send a crossword greeting card to a friend.
- Clueword puzzles Crosswords in which clues and answers are in different languages.
- Crosswords for Fun Join the Crosswords for Fun puzzling community, where we all enjoy doing puzzles and building our vocabulary and general knowledge, to keep our minds sharp and our brains active. Become a member of the Clue Detective Club just A$37 a year. New puzzles are being added all the time - crosswords, codewords, word-searches and sudoku. Enter the monthly Crosswords for Fun codeword competition for your chance to win a year's subscription to Macquarie Dictionary Online.
- The Da Vinci Game — codes, riddles, logic and trivia questions A board game for 3 or more players or teams where players race to solve challenges and collect treasures. Many questions are like those in cryptic crosswords with 200 anagrams and 200 cryptic riddles, 800 challenges in all.
- Dell Magazines Dell Magazines
- 8-SQUARE Crosswords - puzzles - chess
- The ENIGMA from the National Puzzlers League
- Forget-Me-Not Shareware Inc. Interactive cryptogram solving. Solve on-screen, print out, or use their free software.
- HalfSecret.com Free Crossword Puzzles This site provides free crossword puzzles using a unique design that shows a technique that could be used for providing crossword puzzle games on a cell phone.
- Jigsaw Puzzles & Jigsaw Puzzle Accessories Largest variety of jigsaw puzzles, jigsaw puzzle accessories & classic games at the best prices. Offers classic jigsaw puzzles & newly released puzzles & games like — Ravensburger, FX Schmid, White Mountain, SunsOut, Ceaco, Milton Bradley & more.
- Just Riddles Collection of several riddles all at one place!
- Language Games Have fun playing while Learning languages with www.languagegames.org online games! The games you will find here are much more effective at helping you acquire foreign language skills than other types of exercises. See by yourself!
- Math Puzzle Martin Gardner celebrated math puzzles and Mathematical Recreations. This site aims to do the same.
- Number Puzzle Number puzzle that displays math equations with each digit displayed as a symbol. Goal: Map the digits to their icon in a way all equations match.
- Picture Puzzles "Made to Order" from your own Photos Turn your favorite photo into a Picture Puzzle for a unique and fun gift. Many sizes to choose from including large 1000+ piece puzzles. Upload your photo and order online today.
- A Preponderance of Puzzles at Governor Livingston High School, the students write puzzles to test each other's mental agility (or just to keep from falling asleep and incurring the wrath of their Physics teacher). They have created and are growing a terrific group of puzzles — you'll enjoy your visit!
- Puzzle Game Heaven Puzzle Game Heaven offers the most popular puzzle games including crossword puzzle, jigsaw puzzle, mahjong puzzle, word puzzle, logic puzzle, ball puzzle, cubes puzzle, cards puzzle and more. Requires download of executable files to play.
- PuzzlePick Three puzzles - a printable acrostic, a printable or interactive cryptic and a new interactive trivia crossword with a prize. Lots of SAMPLES to start with.
- Puzzlers Cave — The Online Crossword Community Play free quick, cryptic, and themed crosswords online. All crosswords are supplied by our members and are free to play online or can be downloaded as PDF documents to print or play at home. Also make your own crosswords with the free Crossword Compiler and publish them to Puzzlers Cave
- Puzzles.com is a premier puzzle website about puzzles and optical illusions, magic and origami, scientific toys and math diversions, other things that involve intellectual recreations.
- The Puzzling World of Barry R. Clarke Original free brain teasers from British puzzles expert and Daily Telegraph (UK) compiler.
- Rod Kimball's Puzzle Page A sampling of my various types of puzzles
- Russian crosswords site Online crosswords and japanese crosswords (griddlers). Daily updates
- Sixteen Across A crossword with a short story for each clue; the stories take place in a city whose streets echo the shape of the crossword.
- SkorDisk Enigma Word Games Free daily online Word games such as Crossword, WordSearch, Maze, Sudoku, Cryptic, Scandinavian, Knight Jump and more.
- STARTDL for thinkers: Exercise for the Mind." This site contains a nice variety of online presentations of those puzzles familiar to solvers of Dell and Penny Press variety puzzle magazines.
- terrystickels.com Puzzles from author and syndicated columnist Terry Stickels
- The Word Puzzles Thousands of Biblical puzzles, 14 types for New Testament, Psalms and Isaiah, and more...
For kids
- Kids' Quest Crossword Puzzle from christiananswers.net
- Kookerkids Welcome to the most unique kids site on the 'net! Featuring games, puzzles, feature stories, coloring, crafts and much more! Learn math, shapes, ABC's and more while having fun!
- Miss O & Friends Fun puzzles with different levels of difficuty from Miss O & Friends (by girls, for girls)
- Puzzles4Kids A website featuring great puzzles and activities for kids from 5 to 11.
Non-English
- Bambam's puzzelsite! Dutch puzzlesite with online crosswords & cryptic crosswords, word finders, kriss kross puzzles and every month a prizepuzzle! Now also online English puzzles!
- Crucigrama interactivo Spanish crossword site with online crosswords, wordfinder, anagram-generator
- Crucigramas Temticos Crossword Tournamente Free for play. "Crossword in Site" service.
- Daily new free word puzzles Crosswords, word searches — english as well as bilingual. Daily new free puzzles, monthly awards, puzzle generator
- Daily Translation Crosswords Learn a foreign language with Crosswords! Daily Crosswords in German, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and French.
- Ludonews.com Des centaines de jeux de lettres, de logique et de culture générale pour tous les goûts et tous les niveaux : mots croisés interactifs, anacroisés, mots casés, mots codés, mots mêlés, puzzles, nombres croisés, quiz, Vrai/Faux, tests, concours, etc.
- MCFAO Des grilles de mots croisés et fléchés thématiques sur la gastronomie, sur les félins ou sur l'informatique en JavaScript ou à imprimer en couleur ou en noir et blanc, une grille concours sur la France, des trucs et astuces pour résoudre les grilles, un mini-annuaire et beaucoup d'autres choses ...
- Euro Oscar Brazilian author. Palavras Cruzadas de Euro Oscar, charadas, logogrifos, 15 jogos inteligentes, poesias, músicas, variedades. Fill-it-ins, crosswords, champion, recordist.
- The Finnish Crossword Association
- The French national crossword championship conducted by Jean Rossat (who spoke at Stamford in 2003), and which is held each year in the "two-letter towns" of Is, Aÿ, and Eu.
- R@selfieber German crossword portal. 12 different types of online crossword puzzles.
- R@sel4U Gratis interactive german crossword puzzles for easy integration into your website.
- Interactive Swedish Crosswords, Sven-Ove Nordahl Sven-Ove Nordahl's interactive Swedish crosswords based on ActiveX. You load and send in the crosswords in your web browser on the web, but don't need to be connected to internet.
- Korsord ock anagrammer Swedish crossword site with wordfinder, theusarus, anagram-generator
- Kryds og tværs på cd-rom Danish crossword site with online crosswords, wordfinder, anagram-generator
- Kryssakuten.se Kryssakuten.se is a search engine for swedish words. All searches are made in a dictionary containing more than 410,000 swedish words. Kryssakuten.se seaches for partial words (both crossword solver and part of word), anagrams and palindromes.
- Land der Woerter Free vocabulary crossword puzzles in German, beginners to advanced. PDF-Printout & interactive.
- Language Crosswords Improve your foreign language skills by solving fun crosswords in different categories. The languages to practice are German, French, Italian and Spanish
- Lingua Spectrum Word puzzles in English and Spanish for language learners - crosswords and variations, hangman, wordsearch, acrostic, anagrams, morphwords etc. Also non-word games like suduko and karuko and thousands of searchable quotations. Multimedia language lessons in English and Spanish.
- Mots croisés — Jeux de lettres Site gratuit dédié aux mots croisés et aux divers jeux de lettres du même type. Grilles à résoudre en ligne ou à imprimer (mots croisés, muets ou grilles blanches, placés casés, codés ou anagrammes). Dictionnaire de recherche de mots avec conjugaison des verbes. Importante liste de liens.
- Multilingual crosswords Multilingual crosswords, according order, on a regular basis. You start, we finish.
- Denksportsite New Belgian puzzle site. Weekly puzzles and prizes, hot news and online competitions
- Gator.fr Online puzzles Online interactive Flash puzzles: classic, clues-in-squares and anagram crosswords, bar-the-words puzzles. Regularly updated free puzzles, and a subscription formula for the enthusiasts.
- A Recreativa Home Page The oldest crossword magazine from Brazil
- Ruiter Puzzel Dutch puzzle site with a price puzzle.
- Russian Crosswords ON-LINE Russian crosswords for all.
- Tarkus Site of Tarkus, spanish puzzlemaker of "El País", with his crosswords, wordfinds, clues in squares and logic games.
Pay for Play
- A1 Puzzles — Interactive Crosswords, Jigsaw Puzzles and Trivia. Quality Crosswords and Puzzles. A1 Puzzles has over 350 quality puzzles, and with more than 60 new puzzles being added on a monthly basis this is sure to provide the avid solver with 1000's of hours of fun.
- The Puzzle Society Play interactive and print versions of crosswords, jigsaws, trivia, Jumble, cards, arcade games, and more. Games update daily. Over 7,000 puzzles in the online archive are available to subscribers.
- YouPlay YouPlay has many puzzles and games to play online. Sudoku, Crosswords, Number puzzles, Word puzzles and more.
Puzzle Contests and Competitions
- The Contest Center — Puzzles & Prizes "Win big CASH PRIZES in our challenging fun-filled puzzle contests. 8 contests monthly. Over $585,000 paid. Plus crosswords, anagrams, puns, logic, cryptograms, and more."
- The French national crossword championship conducted by Jean Rossat (who spoke at Stamford in 2003), and which is held each year in the "two-letter towns" of Is, Aÿ, and Eu.
- London Times Crossword Championship
- The Mind Sports Olympiad "Bringing Brains Together"
- Puzzled.com
- Puzzles. Can you believe it? Mechanical puzzles, geometric dissections, optical illusions, puzzles to solve.
- PuzzleSoup Cute, fun and witty rebus puzzles with new puzzles posted every day. This is an international interactive puzzle community with puzzles contributed by PuzzleSoup members. Scores are kept and you can climb the ladder or ranks.
- riddler.com Trivia, crosswords for prizes: play against others online. You have to register to play many of the games. They state, "We make the addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting." If you are concerned about First Amendment privacy issues, then please be sure to read their full disclosure statement.
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Crossword knowledge Okay, there's no money involved, but it's fun, and if you're good enough, you'll see a picture of Will along the way!
Books
- Crossword Puzzles for Students of English as a Foreign Language Crossword Puzzles for Learning Languages
- Crossword Wordfinder A guide for finding proper names of actors, writers, musicians, politicians, award-winners, and other celebrities. Includes over 73,000 cross-referenced entries.
Blogs
- Daily Crossword Drawings (Emily Cureton)
- Diary of a Crossword Fiend (Amy Reynaldo)
- Ellen's Journal (Ellen Ripstein)
- Eric Berlin
- Heaneyland! (Francis Heaney)
- In Black and White (Trip Payne)
- The JimH Crossword Blog
- Madness--Crossword & Otherwise (Linda G)
- The New York Times Crossword in Gothic Daily commentary on NYT crossword puzzle.
- The Next Best Thing (Dean Olsher)
- One Man Banned (Patrick Blindauer)
- Pat Tricks Patrick Merrell)
- The Puzzle Brothers (Dave & Bob Mackey)
- Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle Witty commentary on each day's NYT crossword, with informative links and pictures.
- Ryan and Brian Do Crosswords Two average solvers tackle and discuss the New York Times puzzle every day. Also available is a weekly podcast (25% crossword, 75% inane banter).
- Squaresville (Jeffrey Harris)
- Stellavision (Stella Daily)
- Tyler Hinman
- Water and Waves (Harris Ruben)
Forums, Listserves, Indices, etc.
- The Answer Guys Archives of answer grids for syndicated crosswords.
- Crosswords Without Pity
- Cruciverb-L, Home for the Discerning Cruciverbalist Home of the Crossword Constructors Forum. Focus is specifically crossword construction problems, markets, etc. The users include many of the powers that be in the world of crossword construction.
- Game Forums Game related discussions from GameHourz
- Monograph on crossword puzzles by BarelyBad. It's quite interesting and informative, for both players and constructors. Here you'll find a list of "Cute Clues," tips on how to play well, and what the rules are that New York Times constructors really follow.
- MyCrosswordSite Site for both Constructors and solvers. Constructors who register are provided a tool to manage, track, and upload their puzzles to their own webpage. Solvers are provided with puzzles and links from the Main Page.
- New York Times Crossword Reference Barry Haldiman's lists of puzzles by constructor, plus fascinating crossword minutiae
- rec.puzzles archives
- Scrabble FAQ
Computing & Algorithms
- WebCrow solving crosswords using the Web
- Programmer Of The Month contest We offer a different programming problem every couple of months simply for fun. Active forum and history dating back to 1993! The current POTM will ask you to create a crossword grid from a list of given words.
Software
- Across Lite software Download a "complimentary copy" of their software which you need to solve the New York Times puzzle online. Plus explore their archives.
- ALL-GAMES-PUZZLES Real puzzles on your Windows computer, to play online or offline. All the challenge and enjoyment of solving sudoku puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, codeword puzzles, fracture puzzles, crosswords and more, similar to the games and puzzles found in newspapers and magazines. Every month a new selection of puzzles and games for you to download and play - anytime, anywhere, without being connected to the internet (.exe or .pdf)!
- Anagram Genius Solves anagrams and creates relevant, grammatical anagrams of any subject.
- BeCrossword for Palm Across Lite compatible crossword application for Palm OS
- CompuCrissCross Challenging drag and drop word game. More than 2 billion unique crisscross puzzles for Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000. Free download. Free trial.
- Crossdown Maker of Crossdown for Windows, Enigmacross for Windows, and Crossdown ClueBank.
- Cogix Maker of Crossword Wizard, with its Java version available
- CPT-Diagrams Generates crossword diagrams in several styles. Includes editor which allows saving files in 12 data formats, filling and printing crosswords in many languages. Shareware, Win32 and Linux.
- Crossword and Arrow-word Puzzle Compiler software for creating puzzles of cross words and arrow words with definitions and solutionsin random way and in unlimited number
- Crossword Compiler will help you create, edit and desktop-publish crosswords. This is one of the favorites used by the pros. Created by Anthony Lewis.
- Crossword Construction Kit 98
- Crossword Construction Kit
- Crossword Cracker Advanced program to help you solve words in crossword puzzles, as well as anagrams an scrabble features. The current version also has a german wordlist and others!
- Crossworders' Dictionary And Gazetteer World's Largest Digital Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
- Crossword Express for Mac and Windows
- Crossword Express Make all types of puzzle from simple vocabulary puzzles for use in the schoolroom to full scale publication quality puzzles. Publish them interactively on the web using the library of Crossword Express Java applets which are free once you register the compiler program.
- Crossword Maestro Solves and explain cryptic and non-cryptic crossword clues in plain English.
- Crossword Weaver automatically creates crosswords or criss-cross puzzles, with an emphasis on placing your theme words into either style puzzle. It suggests clues too. It has a WYSIWYG display and many layout and editing functions. Free demo version available.
- CrozzWord CrozzWord for Sharp Zaurus lets you display/solve local and remote .puz puzzles(Across Lite format); direct access to many sites, including New York Times.
- Cygnus Cybernetics Reseller of puzzle software
- DRACULA Crosswords Builder DRACULA CROSSWORDS BUILDER is a complete high-quality suite of tools for : a) Crossword puzzles building (maximum dimension: 190 x 140, depending of the resolution of your screen). The user puts the "black squares" and the "fixed letters" and chooses the words list. After that, the program AUTOMATIC fills the entire crossword puzzle. Using the same pattern (template) can be built a lot of different crosswords. Further more, there is a feature that allows an automatic "rearrangement" of the "black squares" if for a specific configuration, the program didn't find any solution. b) Crosswords puzzle management ("view" / "print" / "export to excel" / "delete" ready made crosswords, "print" / "save" black squares configuration) c) Clues Management / Assistant. Include Merriam-Webster searchable dictionary (112000 words), and a track of previous defined clues for every word. d) Words lists management ("create" / "modify" / "delete" words lists). The included word lists are: — English_Pocket : 21000 words, based on English Pocket Dictionary — English_Unix : 25000 words, the dictionary distributed with most versions of Unix — English_Scrabble: 79000 words, scrabble dictionary. The words length is maxim 8 — English_Oxford: 105000 words, based on Shorter Oxford English Dictionary — English_Webster : 112000 words, based on dictionary. — English_Inter : 228000 words, based on Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition The program can be used 30 days for free. Needs: Pentium / min 64 MB RAM / 1 GHz — Windows 2000 / XP
- FineCrosser Automated clues-in-squares crossword puzzle maker with picture feature.
- PC Word Games — Weave Words Find the words, guess the letters, and solve the phrases in the fun new PC word game, Weave Words.
- Professional Crossword Software Official Site Welcome to fresh project site. Professional Crossword Software project is started. Main project goals are: * to develop high quality and low cost software for crossword composing * to connect crossword makers and solvers to work together building largest free online multilanguage enigmatic dictionary * to develop software for publishing and solving crosswords in digital form
- Puzzleconnection.com Crossword and Word-Search construction software. Plus, puzzles to solve!
- The Puzzle Depot This link has a terrific list of puzzle and Scrabble shareware and freeware software. Then link to their "Book Stacks" page for a sample newsletter edited by Stan Newman, to contests, games, puzzles, and lots of other great stuff.
- Puzzle Express Software for Crosswords, Coded Crosswords, Fill In Crosswords, Word Search, Puzzle Packs, Math Squares, Solitaire Games, Tenpin, and WinGolf
- Search Amateur Games — Crossword Puzzles Online Games, Downloads and Clubs
- SoftSpot Software with great looking software to play the familiar word games we all love!
- Stand Alone, Inc Across Lite Reader and completion tool for Palm OS
- Tea and Sympathy TEA is the crossword solver and SYMPATHY the crossword maker!
- TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler Create custom crossword puzzles fully automatically using your own databases or built in clue-answer dictionaries. Puzzles can be exported as HTML or published as Online-Game with popular TooHot Open Source Java Applet.
- Vocabulary.com Download a demo of Vocabulary University© puzzles
- WinPCgames Downloadable Word Games and other games. Some free.
- Word Fit automatically generates "Newspaper-Quality Crossword Puzzles"
- The Word Gamer's Paradise This site features Vandelay Games and has a nice collection of reference and puzzle hyperlinks. Nice graphics; worth a visit!
- Word Game Software Solve crossword puzzles and get any possible answers to your scrabble query
- Word games — Free download by Yoogi games Download and play coded X-word, word search games and other word games
- Wordsheets Create crossword, word search and word scramble puzzles from your list of words. Free working demo. Many automatic features help you quickly create great lookiing one or two page worksheets in portrait or landscape styles.
- Word Search Creator Free software designed for teachers
- WordSolverUK is a new PC program containing a word search (700,000 words for helping with spelling, crosswords etc.), an anagram solver and a thesaurus with over 1 million cross references and is written in English.
- Word Web Pro a very good-looking Thesaurus/dictionary, word and anagram finder, also from meistro Anthony Lewis.
- Word Wizard PC based crossword/anagram solver with "wildcard" searches and "unscramble" option for e.g. Scrabble. English/U.S. English dictionary of approx. 110,000 words. Allows addition of user files.
Puzzle People
- Australian Crosswords by David Stickley
- Boston Cru An informal social group of avid crossword solvers and constructors in eastern Massachusetts.
- Crosswords Puzzles Wordgames Crosswords and puzzles for newspapers and magazines. Cartoons too!
- Ray Hamel , puzzle constructor and trivia buff has a personal homepage for your enjoyment. "I was a straight-A student in high school, so I spent a lot of time in study hall solving crossword puzzles." Fabulous list of links!
- Kevin's Crossword Page This is a great looking site. He moderates a Crossword Constructors Forum from here and has lots of terrific puzzles and more and more links! Well worth the visit.
- Joseph Lundy Creator of original crossword puzzles and word games appearing in newspapers across the United States
- PeterPuzzle.com All about puzzle projects by Peter Grabarchuk, including puzzle products, books and publications, web puzzles, and other puzzle activities.
- Fred Piscop on the Web with puzzles for you to enjoy solving.
- Solve One Puzzle A Day Collection of daily Puzzles, Brain Teasers and Riddles. Try to solve one puzzle a day and check the solution in the next day.
- Triple Play Puzzles Trip Payne's professional website, with original puzzles, information about his books, and much more.
- terrystickels.com Puzzles from author and syndicated columnist Terry Stickels
Merchandise
- All Jigsaw Puzzles Over 350+ Popular and Hard to Find Jigsaws in the UK
- CrosswordUniverse.com Crossword Universe features themed crossword puzzles in a variety of categories including, music, movies, tv, sports and history.
- The Great Boston Crossword * An exciting mind challenge? * The perfect gift for the crossword puzzler in your life? * A great idea for the ultimate Boston fan? The Giant Boston Crossword Puzzle is a professionally crafted 24" x 36" poster devoted to all things Beantown!! With over 2100 clues, this unique work of interactive art offers hours (days? weeks?) of challenging entertainment!!
- Jigsaw Puzzles Made to Order Jigsaw Puzzles and Photo Collage Puzzles, made to order and personalized with your own photo. Many puzzle sizes and shapes to choose from including large 1000+ piece puzzles.
- Names Names Names Unique 24,000 First & Last proper names dictionary. Names taken from actual puzzle clues over past 15 years.
- Puzzle Buffs , whose puzzles are featured weekly in The National Enquirer and others, offers contests as well as a great store that feaures books of the company's well-loved products as well as many other retail books and gift items.
- Puzzle Prezzents Crossword-themed gift items (t-shirts, tote bags, umbrellas, mugs, etc.)
- Questique, strategy crossword game Questique is a strategy crossword board game for adults, families and children.
- WildWords A crossword game with a wildcard and the bluff.
The Marriott Hotel — where the tournament happens!
- Brooklyn Bridge Marriott New home of the tournament
Links to More Links
- About.com's Puzzles Resource for all kinds of puzzles
- Crossword Links from Refdesk.com
- Crossword Puzzles All kinds of crossword puzzle links.
- Free Online Crosswords offers links to UK and U.S. crosswords, cryptics, dictionaries, reference sites, software, and books.
- Printable Crossword Puzzles Links to printable crossword puzzles. With occasional funny crossword related videos.
- nerdworld links to puzzle locales
- Ray Hamel has a great listing
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