Puzzle Pointers 2012

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Daily

New York Times daily -- Will Shortz, editor -- subscription required
[2012 puz] [2012 pdf] [puzzle page]

CrosSynergy Syndicate daily -- Washington Post
[puzzle page]

Creators Syndicate daily -- Newsday -- Stanley Newman, ed.
[puzzle page]

Los Angeles Times daily -- Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis, eds.
[archive] [cruciverb] [puzzle page]

Wednesdays

Onion A.V. Club Wednesday Puzzles -- Ben Tausig, ed.
[2012] [2011] [google group] [puzzle page]

Thursdays

Jonesin' Thursday Puzzles -- Matt Jones
[2012] [2011] [puzzle page]

Fridays

Wall Street Journal Friday Puzzles -- Mike Shenk, ed.
[2012] [2011] [puzzle page]

I Swear Crossword Friday Puzzles -- Victor Fleming
[2012] [2011]

Ink Well Friday Puzzles -- Ben Tausig
[2012] [2011] [google group] [puzzle page]

Weekly Crossword Contest Friday Puzzles -- Matt Gaffney
[blog] [google group]

Chronicle of Higher Education Friday Puzzles -- Patrick Berry, ed.
[puzzle page]

Saturdays

Wall Street Journal Saturday Puzzles -- Mike Shenk, ed.
[puzzle page]

Sundays

Post Puzzler Sunday themeless -- Peter Gordon, ed.
[2012] [2011] [2010] -- puz files
[2012] [2011] [2010] -- pdf files
[puzzle page]

Cox & Rathvon / Hook Sunday Puzzles -- Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon; Henry Hook
[2012]

Washington Post Sunday Puzzles -- Merl Reagle
[2012] [puzzle page]

Other Puzzles

Brendan Emmett Quigley -- Can I Have a Word With You?
http://www.brendanemmettquigley.com/

Ray Hamel's Crossword Puzzle Links Page -- the mother lode
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/cp.html

Amy Reynaldo's Crossword Fiend Links Page -- most recent puzzles
http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/download/

Puzzles by Will Johnston -- over 100 of my own offerings
[themed] [themeless]

Resources

Jim Horne's Xword Info Database -- NYT puzzle records, novelties, answer grids
http://www.xwordinfo.com/

Barry Haldiman's NYT Puzzle Databases
http://home.everestkc.net/nytxword/index.htm

Online Dictionaries
http://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/xyzzy/dictionaries.html

Cruciverb.com Constructor Community Center -- Kevin McCann
http://www.cruciverb.com

Crossword lecture notes -- Will Johnston
Become a Crossword Super Solver -- 19 January 2010
The Art of Crossword Construction -- 26 January 2010

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Nancy Shack, Lloyd Mazer, Joe Cabrera, Martin Herbach, and John Minarcik for making and hosting .puz files.

Page maintained by Will Johnston.
Revised: 3 January 2012

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