Eric Berlin’s Puzzlesnacks has been up and running longer than this newsletter, but I haven’t mentioned it as I don’t subscribe myself. Whoops. It’s a $3/month subscription with bite-size variety puzzles, like Rows Gardens, Spirals, and other formats. Eric is now releasing a collection of 20 full-size variety puzzles and is a good Twitter follow for quick puzzles.
A new link today, from Jessica Goldstein. She’s been posting for a few months from a tinyletter emailer that I somehow missed, and recently started a full-blown blog: Cross Angel Mind Freak. Today’s link is the fourth puzzle she’s got up there, and there’s a few dozen more at the tinyletter site.
Cross Angel Mind Freak: September Themeless by Jessica Goldstein. .pdf, online.
Grids These Days: Numbers Game by Paolo Pasco. .puz, .pdf, online.
Puzzles That Need A Home: Themeless 29 by Brian Thomas. .puz, .pdf.
Square Pursuit: Themeless 15 by Steve Mossberg. .pdf, .puz, online.
The New Yorker: The Crossword by Natan Last. .pdf, online.
Tough As Nails: Themeless 20 by Stella Zawistowski. .puz, .pdf.
Daily Beast: Game Over by Matt Gaffney. Online, .pdf.
Club 72: Freestyle 545 by Tim Croce. .puz, .pdf.
AVCX: ($) A Few Side Notes by Ella Dershowitz. Subscribe, free trial, or purchase individual puzzle.
Aries Puzzles: ($) Freestyle #3.36 by Andrew Ries. Subscribe or download samples.
Fireball: ($) Set Pieces (Meta) by Peter Gordon. Subscribe at link.
USA Today: Right Guard by Zhouqin Burnikel. Online, app, .pdf.
Universal: Got Milk? by Michael Lieberman. Online, .pdf. .puz
Los Angeles Times: by Susan Gelfand. Online, .pdf. Free Cruciverb account for .puz.
New York Times: ($) by Jakob Weisblat Online, .pdf, .puz, app.
The Wall Street Journal: Getting By by Mike Shenk. Online, .pdf, .puz
Newsday: Connect The Dots by Fred Piscop. Link direct to .pdf. Online.
Mental Playground: Cryptic 15 by Chris Evans. .pdf, online.
Wordgarbler: The New Brew (A Puzzling Story) by Chris Piuma. .pdf, online.
Crosswords with Friends: by Lynn Lempel. App Store | Google Play
Daily POP Crosswords: by Robin Stears. App Store | Google Play
LA Times Mini: by Elizabeth Gorski. Online.
The Atlantic Mini: by Caleb Madison. Solve online or print at link.
The New York Times Mini: by Joel Fagliano. Online, app.
Crosshare: 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