Tips and Tricks for Solving Crossword Puzzles

Here's a list of the top three sites for the crossword puzzle solver. If you're struggling with a tough clue or are stumped by a difficult puzzle, these sites can be very helpful.

Here's ten tips to help you improve your crossword puzzle solving skills. For the novice, these tips can help you solve crosswords faster and more efficiently. If you are already a solver, these ten tips can help you take your skills to another level.

A great addition to the cruciverbalist's reference library. This resource, which was 65 years in the making, spent many years looking for a publisher to no avail, as it contains over a million words and would require some 6,000 pages of printed text. Fortunately, the digital age has come to the rescue and it can now be placed on a single CD.

This is the first dictionary (that I know of) to define words in a truly contemporary sense. Rather than rehashing traditional definitions and excluding words not considered legitimate by academics and purists, NOAD defines words as people use them in everyday speech. It also includes hundreds of new words and acronyms which have come into the language in the last several years.