Indie Crossword Venues and Constructor Sites
- American Values Club Crossword
- Inkubator Crosswords
- Brendan Emmett Quigley
- Fireball Crosswords (Peter Gordon)
- Outside the Box (Joon Pahk)
- Queer Crosswords (fundraising puzzle pack)
- Brooke Husic’s Xwords by A Ladee
- Stella Zawistowski’s Tough as Nails
- Sid Sivakumar’s Sid’s Grids
- Ada Nicolle’s Luckystreak Xwords
- Brian Thomas’s Puzzles That Need a Home
- Paolo Pasco’s Grids These Days
- Trent Evans’s Grid Therapy
- Enrique Henestroza Anguiano’s Datalexic
- Tim Croce’s Club 72 Freestyle/Variety Puzzles
- Chris Words (Christopher King)
- Grid Pro Quo (David Harris)
- Crucinova (weekly crossword subscription)
- ClassiCanadian Crosswords (weekly crossword subscription)
- ClassiCanadian Crosswords blog
- Neville Fogarty
- Patrick Blindauer
- Christopher Adams’ arctan(x)words
- Quiara Vasquez’s QV XwordZ
- Will Nediger’s Bewilderingly
- Cruciverbalist at Law (Andy Kravis)
- Erik Agard’s Glutton for Pun
- Trip Payne’s Triple Play Puzzles
- Matt Gaffney’s Daily Crossword (11x13s)
- David Alfred Bywaters’ Crossword Cavalcade & Weekly Victorian Novel Recommender
- Ubercross (T Campbell)
- Gary Cee’s Crosswords (app)
Meta Crossword Sites
Crosswords and Other Word Puzzle Sites
- New York Times Premium Crosswords
- cruciverb.com (L.A. Times in Across Lite)
- Jonesin’ Crosswords
- Today’s Newsday Crossword (Stan Newman)
- Wall Street Journal Puzzles
- The Hub Crossword (Cox/Rathvon and Quigley)
- Spyscape Crosswords (ed. Will Nediger)
- Will Johnston’s Puzzle Pointers
- Ephraim’s Crossword Puzzle Pointers
- Merl Reagle
- Vox crossword
- Puzzazz.com (Roy Leban)
- Puzzability (Shenk, Goldstein, Leighton)
- 14 Across
- American Acrostics (Cynthia Morris)
- American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
About Crosswords and Words
- cruciverb.com (constructors’ community/resource)
- Rules of crossword clues
- Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project (group digitizing old NYT puzzles)
- Crosswordese.com
- OneLook dictionary search
Crossword Comics
Crossword Software
- Alex Boisvert’s Crosswords (feat. CrosswordButler)
- Download Across Lite here
- Michael Richards’ XWord (Across Lite alternative)
- Crossword Compiler (constructing program for Windows
- CrossFire (constructing program for Mac/Windows/Linux)
- Joon’s Firefox plug-ins (for database searches)
Cryptic Crosswords
- Crossword Fiend Forum: Cryptics
- Wall St. Journal Saturday Puzzle (Cox/Rathvon, every 4 weeks)
- The Nation (Kosman/Picciotto, roughly weekly)—digital subscription $18/year
- Biddlecombe’s Guide to Cryptics
- Times for the Times (U.K.)
- Big Dave’s Telegraph Blog (U.K.)
- Fifteensquared (U.K.)
- How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords (U.K.)
- Unscramblerer’s list of 1,540 abbreviations used in (primarily U.K.) cryptics