Puzzle Pointers 2010

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Daily

New York Times daily -- Will Shortz, editor -- subscription required
[today] [2010] [2009] [puzzle page]
search by constructor [Mon-Sat] [Sunday]

CrosSynergy Syndicate daily -- Houston Chronicle
[today] [recent] [puzzle page]
search by constructor [Mon-Sun]

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

Los Angeles Times daily -- Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis, eds.
[archive] [cruciverb]
search by constructor [Mon-Sat] [Sunday]

Once a Week

Onion Wednesday Puzzles -- Ben Tausig, ed.
[2010] [2009]

Jonesin' Thursday Puzzles -- Matt Jones
[2010] [2009]

Wall Street Journal Friday Puzzles -- Mike Shenk, ed.
[2010] [2009] [variety puzzles]

I Swear Crossword Friday Puzzles -- Victor Fleming
[2010]

Ink Well Friday Puzzles -- Ben Tausig
[2010] [2009]

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

Sundays

Boston Globe Sunday Puzzles -- Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon; Henry Hook
[2010]

Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Puzzles -- Merl Reagle
[2010] [puzzle page]

Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar Sunday Puzzles -- Sylvia Bursztyn
[puzzle page] .swf format

Other Puzzles

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

Cathy Allis -- GeoPuzzle -- National Geographic Magazine
http://http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ -- look in the Table of Contents for GeoPuzzle

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

Ephraim's Puzzle Pointers -- recent puzzles by day of week
http://www.vishniac.com/ephraim/puzzle-pointers.html

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; to Barry Haldiman for maintaining the lists sorted by constructor; and to Merle Baker for JavaScript code that assists the "today" puzzle links.

Page maintained by Will Johnston.
Revised: 9 February 2010

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