Questions tagged [crosswords]
A question including or relating to crossword puzzles. Use [cryptic-crosswords] for British-style cryptic crosswords; [crossword-clues] or [cryptic-clues] for clues as distinct from whole crosswords.
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Regional Business
This is part 40 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The puzzle on the left-hand side is a regional Yajilin. Shade some cells in the ...
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A simple 5x5 crossword
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #14: Think inside the (very small) box!.
A simple crossword:
Across:
1: Mormons, officially
4: Proceed, say
6: Correo _____ (Spanish mail stamp)
8: ...
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Cryptic crossword: blended dawn hue
This is a cryptic crossword. Solvers, to obtain the green tick, must solve the crossword, explain the clues, locate the first seven words of a quotation in the grid, and write the full quotation out ...
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Around the Bend in Many Steps
This is part 38 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is an Around-the-Bend puzzle. Each answer occupies two rows of the grid, ...
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Roughing It (Once More)
This is part 36 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The numbers in blue form a Tapa puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid so that the ...
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It Must Be New York
This is part 35 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
In this crossword, whenever one or more letters from the start of the clue form a ...
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Campfire Crossword
This is part 34 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
These are printer’s devilry clues with an additional definition part in each clue. ...
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Tropical Rhythms (Slight Return)
This is part 30 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
In this crossword, there are no word boundaries. Answers are written one after the ...
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Changing Landscape
This is part 24 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I am at a place high up in the mountains that I would have loved to visit 20 ...
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Term for a crossword's grid "density"?
A crossword puzzle's (usually square) grid has white squares and black squares. I define a crossword grid's "density" to be the ratio of the number of white squares to the total number of ...
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Tetromino Jigsaw Madness
This is part 23 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This puzzle is a crossword-jigsaw hybrid. Cover the white area of the grid with ...
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In It for the Long Haul
This is part 22 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The light grey numbers and arrows from a Yajilin puzzle. Shade some cells in the ...
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Deal or No Deal, Puzzling Edition
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #9: Game/Quiz Shows.
"Well?" asks Howie Mandel. "Would you like to keep your case or switch it with the final one?"
You freeze ...
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Layers upon Layers
This is part 19 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This time I have a Suraromu puzzle for you. The grid contains seven “gates”, ...
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Sneaks and Addlers
This is part 18 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
This is an I Have No Idea What I’m Doing crossword. The clues are a mix of 10 ...
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Round and Round (the World)
This is part 17 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
Today’s puzzle is a circular crossword with overlapping answers. Answers in all ...
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Puzzle #111731267 - 19 Crossed Pairs
Instructions:
There are 19 pairs of related answers with a common theme. Each pair consists of an across answer and a down answer. These two answers cross at a single letter marked with a number.
All ...
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Many Moons (and Suns) Ago
This is part 12 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Many moons ago, on an island far, far away…
Deаr Puzzling,
Today I have a Moon-or-Sun puzzle for ...
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In Remembrance of Dark Times
This is part 8 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
The name of the game here is printer’s devilry, with an added definition part in ...
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Who’s in for a Cruising?
This is part 6 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
Looks like I’m getting way behind schedule already. Sorry about that! Time flies ...
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Hippos and Horseplay
This is part 5 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
This time you are going to need some of your chess knowledge. Not a lot of chess ...
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From Before Caesar
This is part 4 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
How have you been? I hope you don’t mind me showing up a little early this time ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 19): At the Theater
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door>
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 15): Candy Cane Crossword
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
Solve this ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 14): Let's decorate the tree!
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
If you ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 9): International Christmas Crossword
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
Languages
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A 2x2 Crossword
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
Across
1 - Catan resource
4 - Cables used to restart car batteries
5 - A piece of Earth's lithosphere
Down
1 - To apply ...
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The woefully underclued crossword
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
Giving clues for everything makes things way too simple. In this crossword, four clues are not given and you must find a way ...
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Crossword by name, crossword by nature
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
Here's a crossword puzzle - in fact, here are two of them - with a twist. Every entry in the two grids below contains the 5-...
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Neo-Futurist Poetry
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
Skyline's better half
mirrored – a perfect pangram
and yet a poem. (5)
The answer to this crossword is the unclued 1-Down, a ...
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Are you getting tired of regular crosswords?
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
Are you getting tired of regular crosswords? If so, then allow me to bring this one to your attention!
Solve the clues and ...
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With the power to draw you in (and be swept away by the joy of puzzling)
Instructions:
Solve the enigmatic crossword
Each answer clues a letter
Take only the 9 letters which were clued more than once (to find 9 distinct letters)
Apply the title and anagram the result for ...
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T9 Crossword Puzzle
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
Anybody remember T9? Before fancy on-screen keyboards became commonplace, T9 was the state-of-the-art input method if you were ...
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There are 10 types 0f pe0ple 1n the w0rld
Th1s puzzle 1s part 0f the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
C0mplete the cr0ssw0rd and f1nd the h1dden themat1c e1ght-character s0lut10n w0rd.
Acr0ss:
7. Pref1x mean1ng 'just a few' 0r '...
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Sergeant Sequence leads the way
Sergeant Sequence entered the Chief Investigator's office to find his boss in some agitation.
"Patrick Terne is on the move again, Sequence," sighed the Chief, "and once more I find ...
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A Crossweb Puzzle for Herb
I brought my buddy Herb my new Crossweb puzzle to try, and he wrinkled his nose.
"No way. Far too difficult. Besides, there's only one type of Crossword puzzle I like and this is NOT it."
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Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) - a Puzzling tribute
Across:
1. 1962 hit for Elvis Presley: Return to ______ (6)
5. Capital city of Jordan (5)
7. Birthplace of Albert Einstein (3)
8. Member of the Royal Military Police (6)
9. Major US retailer, Home ...
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Events/Activities Crossword Puzzle
I wonder where such events/activities happen.
Mind the gaps while filling!
The crossword grid was created at
https://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/crossword/
The idea of the puzzle ...
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Build your own puzzle!
This grid contains 3 puzzles all in one; 0h n0, a Crossword and a Wordoku (Sudoku with letters)...
...but first you'll need to build it.
0h n0
Cells can 'see' other blue cells in the same row and ...
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Another Strange Crossword
Solve the strangely-shaped crossword.
Then find the answer word describing how PSE treats new users.
Sorry- no text version of the crossword image. It is difficult for me to fit all that info into ...
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A crossword with no clues?
This crossword doesn't appear to have any clues... or does it?
Solve the crossword to get a bonus puzzle, and find the final word to describe the crossword!
Google Sheets Link
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Get-a-Clue™ Crossword
Complete the crossword.
Each answer is one word.
(n) is noun and (v) is verb.
collection
1D. ↑ (n)
1A. ↑ (n)
2D. ↑ (n)
3D. ↑ (n)
4A. ↑ (v)
5A. ↑ (n)
6D. ↑ (v)
7D. ↑ (v)
8A. ↑ (n)
9A. ↑ (v)
10A. ↑ (v)...
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The History of Unicode
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx.
Here are the pages in text form; it should be pretty self-explanatory, but feel free to ask any questions if ...
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Riley-Clued Crossword
The no-computers tag is there only to prevent database dictionary searches. Other computer uses are fine.
Below is an ascii version of the image above, for those who cannot view images. All words are ...
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Another trip with my travel agent
"Hola, compadre!"
"Hey Pat. I got the list of possible destinations for my trip this summer. I'm not sure why I need a diagram, but I assume you want me to get this down to a short list....
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The Mystery Word
STEPS FOR SOLVING (READ FIRST):
First, review the crossword puzzle and its hints.
Next, solve each space of the crossword puzzle except for A10. When you are done solving the rest of the crossword ...
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->Transitions->
Here is a crossword to solve; the yellow squares hold a relevant word.
Online tools will be useful/needed.
partial text transcription:
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I got ninety-nine problems - so here's another one!
To date, on Puzzling.SE I have contributed (counting: 10, 20, 30...) 99 problems to the site. So to mark my 100th, here's a massive meta-puzzle to celebrate the occasion!
Task
Solve the nine sub-...
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Math Crossword with a Twist
This puzzle was inspired by this one
Who will be the first to solve this tricky math crossword puzzle completely?
Across
2: Half of ({20 Across} x (smallest perfect number) + 446)
3: (Number of ...
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Four-Letter Blocks: Board Games (11x11)
I designed a puzzle called Four-Letter Blocks that mixes crossword puzzles with jigsaw puzzles. You are given a crossword puzzle that's been filled in and then cut up into blocks of four letters, as ...
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