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The best in American-style crossword puzzles, foreign language crossword puzzles, themed crossword puzzles, cryptic crossword puzzles (where the challenge is to decipher the clue), crossword puzzles for children, and solving tips and tutorials. Play these crossword puzzles online or print and solve on paper.
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword puzzles are said to be the most popular word game in the world. Find out more about these addictive word puzzles: their history, various types of crosswords, where to find free puzzles online, and how to make and sell your own puzzles.
Free Crossword Puzzles
Free crossword puzzles of varying difficulty levels, ranging from easy puzzles for beginners to mind-bending cryptic crosswords for experienced solvers looking for a challenge. Solve these free crossword puzzles online or print them for solving on paper.
Your Most Hated Crossword Entries (Crosswordese)
Here's where you can nominate your most hated crossword entries for the title of, "The Most Reviled Crossword Puzzle Entry. Crosswordese is here, we need it and it won't go away but that doesn't mean we have to like it. In fact, I downright detest it and my least favorites are... ALAR and ALATE. Furthermore, for the most part, they're always clued the same (another annoying symptom of cro…
Crosswordese
List of crosswordese; hackneyed, obscure words or partial phrases, usually three to five letters long, which often appear in crossword puzzles.
Crossword Solving Resources
Here's a list of the top three sites for solving crossword puzzles. If you're struggling with a tough clue or are stumped by a difficult puzzle, these sites can be very helpful.
Crossword Challenge - The Board Game
Crossword Challenge: The Board Game is a crossword solving game for 2 to 8 players. Ages 12 and up. Product Review by Dave Fisher.
Themed Crossword Puzzles
An eclectic selection of themed crossword puzzles by Dave Fisher. These puzzles may be solved online or printed and solved at your leisure.
Shop for Crossword Puzzles
Need a gift for a crossword fan? These books feature easy crossword puzzles for beginners or ESL students, more challenging crossword puzzles for experienced solvers, U.K. or cryptic crosswords, and fun and crazy crosswords for children.
Cross Words For A Crossword
"Sexually suggestive and possibly offensive" was how some described this controversial crossword from the New York Times. What do you think?
Holiday Crossword Puzzles
Free crossword puzzles with a holiday theme: Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July and more. Solve these puzzles online or print and solve.
The Daily Puzzler
Crossword puzzles, acrostics, logic, word search, and more. The Webmaster asks: "Please let us know if you want more Acrostics. They're really not the most popular puzzles, so unless we hear otherwise, we'll create new puzzles only a couple of times a month." I say more acrostics!
Webber's Anagram Crosswords
These puzzles differ from normal crosswords in that every clue is an anagram of the solution. Solve these puzzles online (Java), in AcrossLite, or print.
Word Squares - Forerunners to Crossword Puzzles
A word square is composed of words of equal length that can be read both horizontally and vertically. They are believed to date from as far back as the the first century AD.

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