/r/crossword
A place for crossword solvers and constructors to share, create, and discuss American (NYT-style) crossword puzzles.
A place for crossword solvers and constructors to share, create, and discuss American (NYT-style) crossword puzzles. For cryptic crosswords, check out r/crosswords.
Spoiler formatting:
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Links:
- How To Solve The NYT Crossword - Interactive tutorial covering common patterns in crossword puzzles
- Puzzle Guide – Guide to and links to some good puzzles
- Puzzle Solver – Crossword-solving program for Mac or PC (for Ubuntu, sudo apt-get install xword)
- CrossFire – An excellent crossword creating program with a good free demo version
- XWordInfo – Information about the NYT puzzle, plus a search function that is incredibly useful for constructing
- Wordplay – Official NYT crossword blog, aimed to help people improve their solving skills
- Crossword Fiend – Links to and discussion of a number of good crosswords
- Rex Parker (SPOILER ALERT) – Solution to and a review of the latest NYT puzzle
- NYT Submission Guidelines – How to submit and what not to submit to Will Shortz
- Crossword Discord - Online chat for solving, construction, and all things crossword
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NYT Thursday 11/21/2024 Discussion
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New Constructor Contest - $1650 in prizes to be won!
Reminder to get your puzzles in to Crosswordr's New Constructor Contest - $1650 in prizes to be won! Open to anyone without a constructing credit in NYT, LAT, WSJ or Universal. Details here! Closes Dec 6th
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NYT Wednesday 11/20/2024 Discussion
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Crossword iOS app that can import sources?
Hi all, the NYT Tech strike ended up allowing me to broaden my crossword horizons and, even though it's over, I've now added a few more daily puzzles into my rotation--namely AVCX, LA Times, the WSJ Friday Meta, and occasionally Vulture.
My problem is that I can't find an iOS app for my phone that can automatically pull from these sources. AVCX is officially supported by the app 'Crosswords' on the App Store with a premium upgrade, that very same app does not include any of the other puzzles I end up doing. Omni Crosswords autodownloads from a number of sources (including LA Times and WSJ), but not AVCX, and I need to manually import the puzzles, which isn't too big a deal when I can download them, but often my phone doesn't recognize the .puz format when downloading outside of my email for some reason. There's also no ability to input rebuses that I can find in Omni.
My question is, is there an app that splits the difference between these two that allows me to autodownload from specific sources (LA Times, WSJ, Vulture, and AVCX)? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you so much!
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Crossword podcast – Fill Me In #468: Nary a snap. (Tuesday, November 12, 2024)
Fill Me In is a podcast about crossword puzzles, though there's the other periodic nonsense you'd expect from two puzzle guys bantering for a while. New episodes of Fill Me In come out every Tuesday morning.
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NYT Tuesday 11/19/2024 Discussion
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Weekly NYT Crossword Solve Video - Monday 11/18/2024
For any Armchair solvers who like having a co-pilot, I publish a weekly Youtube video of my solve on Mondays (the easiest day, LOL). Here's the link for this week, 11/18/2024 (SPOILERS, obviously)
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Constructors- how do you write your crosswords if you do it on digital?? I've tried looking it up and gotten nothing
I can't get google sheets to cooperate with me and while I have a method to write them out on paper I don't feel as if it's fast enough. I'm doing this to publish them in a local paper. I'm going to try Xcel until I hear back from y'all
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Kennedy for America eg.
In the NYT Sunday crossword from yesterday 11/17/24 111 down clue is “Kennedy for America eg.” Answer is “HUB”. What does this mean? I couldn’t find a definition of HUB that fit this clue.
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Online diagramless puzzles
I’m newly obsessed with diagramless crosswords. I purchased a few books by Richard Emmons and have whizzed through these. Does anyone know of anywhere these can be completed online or on an app?
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/r/crossword General Discussion Thread - Week of November 17, 2024
A weekly, open discussion about crosswords and word puzzles, or anything else /r/crossword might be interested in this week.
Please refrain from spoilers or use the spoiler format by putting a spoiler between >! and !< like this:
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Today’s NYT
Why is like three-balls RED?
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Explain this clue?
What the starts of 17-, 26-, 35- and 50-Across are
Response to 17 is RUMPROAST 26 is ELDORADO 35 is STILTWALKER 50 is SKINGAME
And then the answer is FAIRYTALE? I don't get it?
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NYT Saturday 11/16/2024 Discussion
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