This is more editorial than I like to be, but I’ll call special attention to today’s Wall Street Journal Variety offering — Spell Weaving is one of my favorite formats and I especially recommend it if you’ve never tried one before.
If I miss a puzzle or need contacted for whatever other reason, responding to this email will be a better way to get my attention than Twitter for the foreseeable future.
Happy Little Puzzles: Cleanup On Aisle 4! by Matthew Stock. .puz, .pdf, online.
Puzzles That Need A Home: Themeless 30 by Brian Thomas. .puz, .pdf.
Square Pursuit: Talk Like A Pirate Day by Steve Mossberg. .puz, .pdf, online.
Spyscape: Bond… James Bond by Lita & Tass Williams. .pdf, online.
Brain Candy: Guest Midi by Paolo Pasco. .puz, .pdf, online.
David Alfred Bywaters: Eye Movement by David Alfred Bywaters. .puz, .pdf, online.
Club 72: Freestyle 548 by Tim Croce. .puz, .pdf.
Matt Gaffney’s weekly puzzle has been delayed to noon today.
If you are eligible, please make a plan to vote in the US elections this fall. If you are not eligible, please consider how you can support get-out-the-vote efforts in other ways.
USA Today: Well, Well, Well! by Paolo Pasco. Online, app, pdf
Universal: Let Things Go by Annemarie Brethauer. Online, pdf. .puz
Los Angeles Times: by Stella Zawistowski. Online, pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
New York Times: ($) by Robyn Weintraub. Online, .pdf, .puz, app.
The Wall Street Journal: Down In Front! by Alan Arbesfeld. Online, .pdf, .puz
Newsday: Saturday Stumper by Matthew Sewell. Link direct to .pdf. Online.
WSJ Variety: Spell Weaving by Mike Shenk. .pdf.
Mental Playground: Literal Moves by Chris Evans. .pdf, online.
Brain Candy: Get The Picture? by Amanda Rafkin. online.
National Post Cryptic: Cryptic by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon. .pdf
Et Tu, Etui?: Tribute Puzzle That Nobody Asked For by Sid Sivakumar. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: by Lynn Lempel. App. App Store | Google Play
Daily POP Crosswords: by Mark McClain. App. App Store | Google Play
LA Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The New York Times Mini: by Joel Fagliano. Online, app.
Crosshare: Online.
Wordgarbler: Sweet Intuition by Chris Piuma. .pdf, online.
My Puzzle Sources Google Sheet is here. Links to Blogs, Podcasts, and Video Streams are here. Links to constructors’ tip jars are here. Please tweet me at @gritzmac if I’m missing any puzzles so I can include them and solve them myself.
Links below are static and direct to a home page or otherwise.
Other American-style crosswords:
Occasional additional puzzles available at Crosshare | Hard Crossword | Easy Crossword | Boatload Puzzles/AARP | Dictionaries6 Crosswords | YourPuzzleSource | r/crossword | Vox | Inkwell archives + others at Squares.io Index | Several daily puzzles at GameLab | FreeDailyCrosswords | Case Vide (en français) | Cruciverbalista (en español)
Other Cryptic crosswords:
The Independent | The Guardian | Financial Times | More links at Fifteensquared.net | r/crosswords