
Games - Puzzles - Crosswords


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Java Crossword Gallery
- Puzzles are submitted by other compilers for your viewing.
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ClueMaster
- Word searches and logic puzzles and 2-way crosswords.
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Puzzle People
- Human produced not comper based. Standard, cryptic, clueless and trivia crosswords.
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The World's First Crossword
- Read about and solve crossword by Arthur Wynne, first published in the New York World in 1913.
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Motor-Cross Automotive Crossword Puzzles
- Interactive java crossword puzzles relating to the automotive community.
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Acrostics
- Original crossword puzzles of various types. Can download for personal use.
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Puzzle Depot
- Find crosswords, riddles and word puzzles, logic and strategy software/board games, and shareware.
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Crosswords & Other Word Games
- A list of crossword puzzle sites, comic strips, and word-related content.
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Anagram Crosswords
- Crossword puzzles in which clues are anagrams.
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Daily Crossword
- ThirdAge offers a new crossword puzzle everyday.
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USA Today Crosswords
- Crosswords from USA Today. Updated daily.
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Bilingual Crosswords/Mots-Croisés Bilingues
- Online Crosswords/Mots-Croisés en ligne. Clues in French-Answers in English/ Définitions en français-Solutions en anglais.
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JIW Crossword Puzzle Index
- Their are many different categories to choose from along with word searches.
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It's Cubular
- Original cubular crossword puzzle and gift box.
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4crosswords
- Crossword puzzles, online crosswords, puzzle software and crossword puzzle books are all at 4crosswords.com
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Infoplease Weekly Interactive Crossword
- A thematic, interactive crossword puzzle from Infoplease.com
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Lovatts Crosswords and Puzzles
- Leading Australian publishers of crossword magazines. Play online samples or subscribe.
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Thinks.com
- Many puzzles to choose from: crosswords, anagrams, doublets, trivia, math and word searches.
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The Puzzlemakers Site
- Puzzles at all levels of difficulty. Site provides samples.
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Tidbits Puzzles
- Features selection of short and small crossword puzzles.
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Puzzle Buffs International
- Featuring books on crosswords as well as online crossword puzzles and word search games.
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iGameFan.com
- Online games and activities, specializing in crosswords.
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Globob
- Continuous crosswords along with other puzzles to choose from.
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Crosswords and Word Puzzles
- Find online crosswords, access software to write your own puzzles. Includes logic problems, palindromes, cryptics, and foreign-language crosswords. From About.com.
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Yahoo Crossword
- New puzzles daily, archived for two weeks.
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Brenda's Page
- Puzzle on page to print and work offline.
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MSNBC - Crossword
- A new puzzle daily. Many past puzzles available.
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Fantastica Daily -- Crossword Puzzles Weekly
- All based on science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror; new puzzle added weekly
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Crosswordsite
- Crossword puzzles in American and British English and styles - quick and cryptic crosswords, graded from easy to hard, for solving online or on paper.
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The Crossword Centre
- Resources provided for crossword puzzles, links, books and software.
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Crossword Puzzle Guide
- Lists of common crossword answers, biblical names and mythological figures.
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Cracked Crosswords and Puzzles
- Playful games for playful minds.
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Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
- New York Times crossword puzzle editor presents an on-air quiz and gives a challenge for listeners at home.
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Crossword Puzzles
- Offers cryptic crossword puzzles, puzzlemaker software, crossword solvers, and dictionaries.
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About.com
- Crossword puzzles, cryptics, logic puzzles, and links to online references for puzzle solving.
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3DCrossword.com
- The best game out there for crossword players who are looking for something a little different.
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Oxbrain.com
- Illustrated adventure stories with java-based themed crosswords complementing the storyline.
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Scientific Crosswords
- A collection of free to download scientific crosswords.
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Canopia Crosswords
- A variety of crosswords along with other word games.
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Crossworders
- Digital crossword puzzle.
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Merl Reagle's Sunday Crosswords
- Crossword Puzzles.
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Peter & Penny's
- Crossword puzzles, quizzes and books for sale.
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BestCrosswords.com
- Free crosswords on a daily basis.
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Crosswords, Word Puzzles and more
- Free crossword puzzles available to print out and solve. A new puzzle almost every day.
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MacNamara's Band Inc. Crossword Puzzles
- Crossword Puzzles by renowned constructor Fred Piscop. Custom puzzles are also available.
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Daily Puzzler
- this site has crosswords of many varieties, acrostics, word searches, cryptoquotes, jumbles, trivia, and other mindbenders.
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Crosswords
- Online crosswords created automatically.
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Search Lessons Learned from Crossword Puzzles
- Abstract paper by Matthew L. Ginsberg.
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Pete's Puzzle Page
- Original rock'n roll crossword puzzles. Challenging brain teasers. Fun for music lovers.
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EJ's Crossword Showcase
- Various types of crosswords by Eddie James.
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Peter's Cryptic Crossword Corner
- Site includes puzzles for printing, booklist, and a guide for beginners.
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Theresa's Cryptic Crosswords
- Cryptic crossword puzzles and solving guide.
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Aeronaut's Cryptic Crosswords
- Online and printable puzzles.
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Free Crosswords
- Puzzles for download and articles on crossword compiling. Accepts user submissions.
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Susannah's Cryptic Crosswords
- Weekly puzzles as featured in the Ottawa Citizen, a Canadian newspaper. Also includes a solver's guide and an anagram service.
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Webber's Cryptic Crosswords
- Puzzles in three formats. Also contains links to software.
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David Tossman's crosswords
- Sample cryptic puzzles from the New Zealand Listener, some thoughts on puzzle composition, and links to other sites of interest.
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Crossword Links
- Links to cryptic crossword sites, software and books.
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Jim's Cryptic Crossword Collection
- A compilation of printable puzzles.
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The Globe and Mail: How to do a Cryptic Crossword puzzle
- Solution tips.
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The Crossword Directory
- Cryptic puzzle resources - links, book reviews and articles.
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Orafusion's Cryptic Crossword
- Monthly puzzle and tips on how to solve cryptics.
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Cullen Crosswords
- Cryptic puzzles by Bob Gregory, updated every month
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Jaques' Cryptic Crosswords
- Puzzles by Brian Jaques.
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Lexcentrics
- Cryptic crosswords and other word games. Pay site, but has a free section with a tutorial and sample puzzles.
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Val's Cryptic Puzzle Tips
- Hints on solving crossword clues.
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Independent Cryptic
- Daily crossword from the Independent, UK.
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Solving Cryptic Crosswords
- Tips on deciphering clues.
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Allwords.com
- Used to solve awkward crossword clues.
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Crossword Solver
- A utility to help with those holes in your crossword puzzle solution.
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Dictionnaire de Mots Croisés
- Online French Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.
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One Across
- Search for answers to you puzzle.
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Wordfinder
- Online dictionary and synonyms used on crosswords. Available on CD-ROM.
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Proper Name Finder
- A reference guide for finding proper names of actors, writers, musicians, politicians, award-winners and other celebrities; includes 73,000+ names, titles, and award recipients.
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Ekelundh.Com
- Free crossword solver. Fill in known letters to see suggestions from the database.
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Crossword Companion
- Online aid for solving crossword puzzles.
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Crossword Helper
- Online aid for solving puzzles.
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Amo's Online Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
- The Amo dictionary contains more than 170 000 words. Searching on the basis of a sequence of letters and jokers is fast and efficient. Excellent for crossword puzzles.
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Crossword Solver and Scrabble Aid
- Online tool which provides a list of possible words for given series of letters and blanks, or for a given batch of letters.
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Double Crostic Puzzle Page
- A new double crostic puzzle for each bi-weekly contest, playable online via java applet. Puzzle is a specialty crossword also called an acrostic; tests cryptographic skill, trivia, and vocabulary; reveals a literary quote.
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Fun by Kaz
- HeadLines acrostic-style puzzles test your knowledge of trivia,current events, movies, sports, and vocabulary.
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E-Crostic Software
- Software for solving acrostics; acrostic database; contact for software for creating acrostics.
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Quiz-Acrostics
- Here are sophisticated acrostics puzzles that incorporate trivia questions rather than the traditional literary quotations. One puzzle can be printed out directly from the web site free of charge.
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Acrostics Network Home Page
- Contains one printable puzzle. Information about an excellent newsletter source for printed (snail mail) puzzles.
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Soot-n-Smoke Home Page
- Small software company developing commercial products intended for niche markets on primarily 32 bit Windows platforms. Java Applet and 2 puzzles.
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JGames - a free java online game site
- Includes a java applet and a dozen puzzles, as well as half a dozen other games.
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Crossword Construction Kit 98
- The Desktop Publisher for Crosswords. Features the unique ability to make puzzles in fun shapes (diamonds, doughnuts, trains, etc)
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Word Works From CL Enterprises
- Creates religious word puzzles for all ages.
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Crossword Maestro
- Solves cryptic and non-cryptic crossword puzzles with explanations.
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Literate Software Systems Home Page
- Get the free Across Lite software, visit the crossword puzzle gallery, and exchange ideas with and meet other crossword enthusiasts in the CrossTalk Lounge.
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Nonogram Puzzle
- Also called paint by numbers puzzle. Site includes downloads, more than 600 tasks, rules, FAQ, press, puzzle history and game updates. [Russian or English]
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Crossword Software Guide
- If you are a crossword enthusiast you will find here all the software you need, whether it's for creating crosswords or helping to solve them.
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Word Fit! Crossword Puzzle Generator
- Weekly crossword and fill-in puzzles along with a shareware puzzle viewer/generator are available at this site.
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Word Wizard by Codasoft
- Solves crosswords and anagrams. It includes a wordbase with over 100,000 entries, covering almost all words in the English language with between three and nineteen letters.
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Bryson Limited - Word Puzzle Software
- The Electronic Alveary (Word Search) and Sympathy (Crossword Grid Construction).
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Henry Casson's Crossword Utility
- Free crossword software for the creation of grids and the facility to send grids by email as a text message.
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Puzzle Express
- Puzzle playing shareware software, including crosswords, fill ins, coded crosswords, word search puzzles and logic puzzles.
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Crossworks
- Crossword puzzle software with the full Merriam-Webster Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.
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Cruciverbalist
- Crossword construction software for the Macintosh, by West Pole Software.
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Crossword Compiler
- Create educational and professional crossword puzzles. Create vocabulary puzzles automatically from a word list.
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Crossword Weaver
- Easily make crossword puzzles using your words. Two styles of puzzles. Multiple puzzles from the same list. Different difficulty levels.
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Crossdown Crossword Puzzles
- Solve and construct professional crosswords on your Windows computer.
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Crossword Studio
- Solve puzzles and design your own with this commercial program. Add artwork, color and sound. Use them for your own enjoyment or let others share in the crossword fun.
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Across and Across Lite
- Literate Systems' crossword solving and construction software.
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PuzzLex Crossword Solver
- Solves incomplete words, anagrams, multiple word anagrams and countdowns. 200000 word lexicon and over 100000 definitions, synonyms and antonyms.
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Crossword Compiler
- Educational and professional crossword puzzles. Create vocabulary puzzles automatically from a word list.
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WordFind: Crossword Help Utility
- This utility allows you to search for words based on patterns, wildcards (including voewls, consonants and user-defined criteria); has a vocabulary of 115,000 words. Great for crosswords & Scrabble.
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Crossword Express
- A crossword puzzle compiler for Windows and Macintosh.
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TEA
- Offer tools for creating custom crossword puzzles using own databases or built in clue-answer dictionaries, and export them as HTML or publish them as online game with the Open Source TooHot Java applet.
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CRUCIVERB.COM
- A place for crossword puzzle constructors and enthusiastic solvers to hang out. Home of the CRUCIVERB-L mailing list.
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FAQ for rec.puzzles.crosswords
- Here you will find the answers to many questions which people, from time to time, have asked in the rec.puzzles.crosswords newsgroup. The FAQ will also act as a convenient store of knowledge which the participants may find useful, or even interesting.
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The Cru
- Home of the New York Times Crossword Talk Forums participants.
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New York Times Crossword Talk
- Discussions of the daily crosswords and of puzzles in general. Hosted by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon.
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The Contest Center
- Eight new puzzle contests monthly. Plus riddles, brainteasers, cryptograms, logic puzzles, crosswords, anagrams, alphametics, sweepstakes, and tongue twisters.
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Puzzles For Profit
- Puzzle contests: Using assigned letter values, contestants seek best possible score on a variety of word puzzles. MasterMinds© founded in 1987. Nominal entry fees; $3,000/month payoffs
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American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
- The nation's oldest and largest crossword competition.
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All You Need To Know About Puzzle Contests
- How to find puzzle contests to enter, what kinds of tiebreakers to expect from various contest sponsors, and how to solve the tiebreakers.