Year-End Crossworld News & Notes
Celebrating the new puzzle blogs in 2021
Before I added News & Notes to the Crossword Links rotation, I would make a note in the daily emails when new sites popped up. That fell off, but I can’t think of a better year-end wrap up than shouting out all the new sites this year.
A small handful of other News & Notes links are at the bottom, but we’ll probably have another edition out in pretty short order.
Onto the list (which is a bit more than I thought before I actually went through the spreadsheet). Some have only a few puzzles, but we’re certainly hoping they come back or keep going. Maybe give something new a try this weekend :-)
“American”
7xwords & girlbosswords (Malaika Handa)
Across The Pond (Sean Yamada-Hunter)
Across The Universe (Dee Williams)
A Crossword Rose (Rose Sloan)
Another Crossword (Adam Isaacson)
beepwords (beepsalt)
Charlotte Ledger (Chris King & Tim Whitmire)
⟪Clever Name Here⟫ (David B. Ritterskamp)
Crossweird Puzzles (Dob & Momes)
Crosswords by Rafa (Rafael Musa)
Crosswords From Outer Space (Mollie Cowger)
Crossword Quest (Josh Meek)
crosswords schmosswords (Kate Chin Park)
Crossworms (Franci Dimitrovska)
Crucinova (Lisa Bunker)
Dave’s No Frills Fills (David Bloom)
The Deli Counter (meatdaddy69420)
Generalisms (Lloyd Morgan)
Haymarket Squares (Ariel Haymarket)
Inexact Puzzles (Zach Obsniuk)
Jack of All Squares (Lyle Broughton)
Jeff’s Puzzles (Jeff Linder)
Jeffrey’s Jottings (Jeffrey Harris) (sunsetted 12/2021)
The Juggernaut (Sid Sivakumar)
Just Gridding (Rachel Fabi & Claire Rimkus)
Kaybart Puzzles (kaybart)
KNXwords (Kunal Nabar)
LuterCross (Matthew Luter)
M&M Crosswords (Martina Waluk)
McAvoy-Bickford Crosswords (Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford)
McGrids (Ryan McCarty)
Benchen71’s Metas On A Tuesday (benchen71)
Mirthwright Puzzles & Games (Andrew Bradley)
The Nexus Blog (Alex Boisvert)
Norah’s Puzzles (Norah Sharpe)
Odd Bear Puzzles (Josh Audibert)
Planet Varldin (Varldin)
Pocket Squares (Jasper Davidoff)
Puzz and Games (Christian)
Puz-zel (Zel)
Wordgarbler (Chris Piuma)
Words Xing (Brendan W. Sullivan)
XXXWordInfo (Elipsis)
Cryptic/Variety:
Beneath The Surface (Kyle Dolan)
Do Glendroids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Glentopher)
Liari’s Cryptic Crosswords (Liari)
Loplop’s Cryptics (Loplop)
Team Crazy Cryptics (Matt)
Bold italics denote something of an editor’s recommendation/my personal favorites, but I’m just one guy, and for the first time in years I didn’t solve every puzzle I could find. There are great, great puzzles up and down the list.
A few other links:
Rachel Fabi posted a handful of 2022 Crossword Resolutions over at Wordplay.
Kate Chin Park put together a post of her favorite clues of the year (I expect we’ll see more like this) and Malaika Handa has a wrap-up of the 7xwords project.
The AVCX Kickstarter reached its funding goal, and subscribers can expect a massive expansion in 2022. There’s still 6 days to get in on the Kickstarter rewards, if you haven’t yet.
Fireball and Fireball Newsflash will both be starting up for 2022 soon. Subscribe here if you haven’t yet, and/or missed the Newsflash Kickstarter.
If you haven’t gotten a copy of the New York Times’ Puzzlemania section yet, copies are still available from the paper’s online shop.
Crossword Butler, one of the inspirations for me to start Daily Crossword Links, has added a Cryptic Butler for tracking cryptics in your Twitter feed.