Puzzle Sources - Google Drive

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1	Subscribe to crosswordlinks.substack.com to receive a daily email with all puzzles I know about.								Feel free to tweet me @gritzmac if there's anything I'm missing	Tip Jar				Last updated 5/2021
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3	Regular: Daily & Weekly(ish)								Notes	Monthly/Irregular				Notes	Cryptic/Variety			Notes	Tournaments		Collections/Not Updating	Notes
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5	7xwords		T	W	T	F	SA	SU	Near daily 2021 project led by Malaika Handa to publish a puzzle for every possible 7x7 grid	7xwords				Malaika Handa, site started late 2020. Will have a daily midi in 2021.	https://cf.kmbweb.de/			Comprehensive cryptic links collection. I don't have the same passion for cryptics as I do for American-style crosswords. This and the link below are more comprehensive for cryptics than this spreadsheet.	American Crossword Puzzle Tournament	Annual Tournament coordinated by Will Shortz. Past puzzles available for purchase, though no convenient download.	Across to Bear	32 2010-2011 puzzles from then-Brown students, including recognizable names Zoe Wheeler, Natan Last, Jonah Kagan, Aimee Lucido
6	Another Crossword	M							Adam Isaacson. Mon/Tue? I haven't solved many yet.	Aaronson.org				Adam Aaronson. Mix of midi and 15x, themed and themeless. Wed-Thu difficulty	Mokelfish			Comprehensive cryptic and variety links collection	Lollapuzzoola	Annual tournament coordinated by Brian Cimmet and Patrick Blindauer. Past puzzles largely unavailable.	Alex Boisvert	A handful of puzzles. I'm not sure the original publish dates.
7	Aries Puzzles ($)			W					Subscription themeless from Andrew J. Ries at Sat/Sat+ difficulty	Across The Universe				Dee Williams, perhaps on hiatus	1Across	SU		Cryptics from a variety of international setters, roughly every two weeks on Sundays	Bryant Park Tournament	Annual Tournament coordinated by Mike Shenk. Past puzzles available for purchase/made pay what you can during coronavirus pandemic.	Alexa Shortbush	From Greg Johnson. Couple hundred puzzles, but tough to tell when updated
8	Atlantic	M	T	W	TH	F		SU	Minis M-F, 15x Su at Tue/Wed difficulty. Editor Caleb Madison. Can download .xml (not .puz) through XWord.	arctan(x)words	M			Chris Adams. Thu-Fri difficulty with occasional themelesses	A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog	W		Grant Fikes, mostly variety	Crosswords LA	Annual Tournament. Past puzzles available for purchase, at one time made free during coronavirus pandemic. Will have to check to see if still in effect.	Beekeeper Labs	140 puzzles from 2007-2010
9	AVCX ($)			W					Subscription edited by Ben Tausig, occasionally others. Range of difficulty levels, usually midweek. $20/yr.	Beyond Wordplay				Quarterly (?) wordplay/words-minded newsletter, usually with a puzzle	A Frame Games			Patrick Berry. Anything here is worth the price.	Indie 500	Annual tournament. Past puzzles available for purchase, at one time made free during coronavirus pandemic. Will have to check to see if still in effect.	Blather Review	100+ puzzles from a wide time frame from Robert Jones, who I have not heard of. Haven't solved any yet.
10	BEQ	M			TH				Brendan Emmett Quigley. M themeless Sa+ difficulty, Thu themed Thu/Thu+	Brain Candy				Amanda Rafkin. Mix of midis and 15x. Generally a 15x on Sunday, "Theatre Thursday" midi	Aries ($)	T	TH	Andrew Ries. Subscription Rows Garden on Tuesdays, monthly-ish variety on Thursdays.	Boswords	Annual Tournament expanding to multiple annual online events. Past puzzles available for purchase.	Caroline's Cryptics	Collections from the Toronto Star available for purchase.
11	Bewilderingly ($)	M							Will Nediger. Thu-level subscription ended March 2020. Free puzzles posted Mondays, have picked up since March.	ChrisWords				Chris King. Over 100 posted puzzles.	Avid Puzzler	M		David Gold. Some American-style puzzles, but mostly Cryptics. Weekly-ish, on Mondays.	Crossword Tournament From Your Couch	Groundbreaking online tournament first held 3/2020, with promise of more to come. Most puzzles available for download free.	CHE	SUNSETTED FEB 2020 Consistent difficulty, themes fall into narrower range reflecting the publication. Midweek difficulty.
12	Brian Gubin		T						Brian Gubin, even mix of themed/themeless puzzles. Tue difficulty	Code.MaiaMcCormick.com				Maia McCormick. A few so far, but no schedule.	Beneath The Surface			Kyle Dolan. Cryptic and Cryptic-adjacent stuff.			CRooked	REBOOTED as Hub Crosswords on Patreon. Hex and BEQ in Boston Magazine. Previously available for email subscription, similar vibe to Gaffney's New York Magazine puzzles.
13	ClassiCanadian ($)			W					Subscription from Barb Olson. Tue difficulty.	Comedy Crosswords				Matt Berger. Puzzles are built around jokes from late-night TV.	BEQ Marching Bands ($)	M		Marching Bands subscription from BEQ. Gentle variety format if you haven't branched out from American-style crosswords			Crossword Constructor's Handbook	From Patrick Berry. Comes with 70 puzzles alongside a manual to crossword construction for only 10$
14	Clever Name Here	M							David Ritterskamp. Mon difficulty. Weekly-ish. Sometimes a little smaller than 15x	Cross Angel: Mind Freak				Jess Goldstein. Site founded Aug 2020.	Canadian National Post Cryptic	SA		Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon.			CrosSynergy	It's darn tough to find any of these, since publication rights were returned to constructors as I understand, but a few dozen are here, thanks to the WayBack Machine
15	Club 72			W			SA		Themelesses from Tim Croce at Sat++ difficulty	Crosshare				Self-publishing site with a range of puzzles, featured daily mini.	Contingencies						Cruciverbalist At Law	Good backlog of puzzles from Andy Kravis.
16	Crossword Nation ($)		T						Elizabeth Gorski - Tue difficulty. Subscription includes 500 puzzles in archives. $20/yr	Crosstalk Puzzles				Nick McGuire. I haven't solved many. Somwhere between weekly and monthly frequency.	Cryptivore			Monthly-ish cryptics from Jeff Levinson			Dan Does Not Blog	Dan Feyer has indicated he'll be uploading scans of archival puzzles in the coming months. One batch of "Something Different"s is already up.
17	Crosswords From Outer Space	M							Themeless every other Monday from Mollie Cowger. Thu/Fri difficulty.	Crossword Discord				Chat server hosting a variety of crossword-related conversations, including a #post-your-puzzles thread. Many users have blogs listed here, others don't.	Et Tu Etui			A style all its own. Currently 3x/wk			Devil Cross	Pre-WaPo Evan Birnholz
18	Crosswords With Friends	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Phone app. Topical themes, Mon-/Mon difficulty. Editors Amy Reynaldo/Trip Payne.	Crosswords Club ($)				Monthly snail mail subscription - 6 21x/mo. Editor Patti Varol. Almost entirely themeless.	Fifteensquared			Comprehensive Cryptic Links			George Barany and Friends	Extensive archive of puzzles from a variety of constructors, often themed to current events of the time. I haven't solved many.
19	Crossworthy							SU	Weekly puzzle from May Huang & Kevin Trickey. Grids are filled by algorithm, clued by hand.	Crosswords Were Always Cool				John O'Leary. Founded Nov 2020.	Financial Times			Cryptics			Glutton for Pun	Erik Agard. Rare puzzles nowadays, but a couple hundred in site archives.
20	Daily Beast	M	T	W	TH			SU	Midis. Consistent difficulty, current events "mini theme." Matt Gaffney. .puz access unknown	Cruzzles				Ricky Cruz. Roughly half themeless, Thu/Fri difficulty.	Garden Party			Weekly Rows Gardens from Michael Blake.			Graham Rosby	Last posted in 2012. Haven't solved any yet.
21	Daily Pop	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Phone app. Topical themes, Mon difficulty. Editor Patti Varol.	Current Magazine				Infrequent puzzles for industry publication from Brian Herrick	Garden Party ($)	T		Michael Blake - Rows Gardens. $25/yr			Grids for Good	COVID-19/Antiracist charity puzzle pack released July 2020
22	Daily Princetonian		T			F			Apparently on hiatus during summer. Wed/Thur difficulty.	Datalexic	1st			Enrique Henestroza Anguiano. Tue difficulty. Previously published midis on 15th of each month, but dialing back. Will likely release midi packs from time to time.	Go Away I'm Sleeping			Sporadic cryptics			Growler Magazine	DEFUNCT. Monthly puzzles for industry publication from Andrew Ries and Vic Barocas. Not solvable online, difficult to print.
23	David Alfred Bywaters Crossword Cavalcade						SA		David Alfred Bywaters. Wed difficulty.	Dave's No Frills Fill				New in spring 2021. Enjoyable themes, Wed difficulty?	Harper's ($)			Richard Maltby, monthly paywalled cryptic.			Hex Cryptic archives	Repository of links to cryptics by Cox/Rathvon.
24	Fill Me In Contest		T						Biweekly-ish metas from Brian Cimmet. Grids are Tue difficulty.	DonkeyPuzzleTree				Max Carpenter. 36 puzzles, sporadic posting	Keynesian Cryptics			Jack H. Keynes			I Dreamed a Theme	Karl Ni and Amanda Chung. Haven't posted in a while, but have gotten a few puzzles into the NYT.
25	Fireball ($)			W		F			Subscriptions from Peter Gordon. Fireball Crosswords (W) some metas, some themeless, late-week range of difficulty. Fireball Newsflash (F) every few weeks, current events theme, early-week difficulty.	Ella Dershowitz				Posted a handful of puzzles quickly, and hasn't posted since, though has had a few published.	Loplop Cryptics			Occasional from George Ho.			Nation Cryptic	SUNSETTED MAR 2020. Now "Out of Left Field Cryptics."
26	Half-Baked Puzzles					F			Will Eisenberg. Founded Nov 2020 but Will has been around for a bit.	gecxwords				Ria Dhull. Founded Aug 2020, hasn't posted since September.	Lovatts						National Puzzler's League Cryptic Crosswords	.pdf collection of Kosman/Picciotto cryptics.
27	Happy Little Puzzles	M				F			Matthew Stock. Mondays often Midis; Fridays are 15x at W difficulty. Occasional themelesses tougher.	Generalisms				New April 2021.	Mad Dog Cryptics			Terry Brennan			New York Sun	Defunct puzzle edited by Peter Gordon, pre-Fireball. Some puzzles are accessible at this link.
28	Inkubator ($)					F			3x-monthly subscription. "Crossword puzzles by women — cis women, trans women, & woman-aligned constructors." Editors Laura Braunstein, Tracy Bennett, Stella Zawistowski, Juliana Tringali Golden. Range of midweek difficulty. Occasional cryptics, regular themelesses. $30/yr.	Grid Pro Quo				David Harris, sporadic posting. Self-described "nerdy" puzzles. Founded June 2020	Magpie						Patrick Berry	Various Cryptic/Variety packs available at his site
29	Jonesin		T						Matt Jones. Tue/Wed difficulty. .puz from Crossword Fiend.	Grid Therapy				Trent H. Evans, used to be weekly-ish, may one day be again. Tue-Wed difficulty. Mix of themed/themeless.	Mental Playground	M	W	Occasionally also a Sunday cryptic.			Patrick Blindauer	Half-dozen puzzle suites available at his site
30	LAT Mini	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Elizabeth Gorski	Grids These Days				Paolo Pasco. Highly creative, range of difficulty. Branching into some variety formats lately.	Monday Fills Acrostic	M		Acrostics from Dave Murchie			Patti Varol	Prolific editor has 20+ sample puzzles on her site
31	Lexicon Devil				TH				Richard D. Allen. Site founded Sept 2020. Frequent metas.	Jack Of All Squares				Lyle Broughton. Fun themes, sporadic posting. Tue/Wed difficulty. Check out his youtube!	MyCrossword						Puzzles for Change, 20 under 30	Puzzle packs from longer ago - gotta dig up links
32	Los Angeles Times	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Increasing difficulty M-Sa, generally in line with NYT, Fri a touch easier. Sat themeless. Editor Rich Norris. .puz from Cruciverb	Jeff's Puzzles				Jeff Linder. Weekly-ish? Founded late 2020, Tue/Wed difficulty?	National Puzzlers' League						Queer Qrosswords and Queer Qrosswords 2	Amazing puzzle packs by LGBTQ+ constructors available with donation to LGBTQ+ charity of your choice.
33	Luckystreak ($)	M							Adam Nicolle. Themeless subscription service on Mondays, occasional free puzzles are usually themeless.	Jeffrey's Jottings ($)	1?	15?		Bimonthly puzzle by Jeffrey Harris. Starting at $2/month on Patreon, planning two puzzles each month.	New Yorker	SU		Weekly archival cryptic			Sheffer, Joseph	Syndicated puzzles under the King Features Syndicate.
34	McKinsey		T						Peter Gordon. Tue difficulty	JKL Crosswords				Jesse Lansner. Tue difficulty, themes that would fit in nicely in defunct Chronicle of Higher Education puzzle.	NewScientist						The Cross Nerd	Peter Broda, 96 posts.
35	MEOW			W					Weekly meta founded Dec 2020.	Just Gridding				Rachel Fabi and Claire Rimkus. Brand new in May 2021.	NewScientist ($)			Paywalled cryptics from Sara Goodchild and others.			The Vulture	More (old) metas from Matt Gaffney.
36	Merl Reagle's Sunday Crosswords							SU	Archival 21x puzzles by late Merl Reagle.	Kate Schmate Crosswords				Kate Leiserson. Brand new in May 2021.	Out of Left Field Cryptic ($)	TH		Weekly from Joshua Kosman & Henri Picciotto starting at $3/mo on Patreon			Theresa's Cryptic Crosswords
37	MGWCC ($)					F			Meta subscription from Matt Gaffney. Puzzles midweek difficulty, metas increase in complexity throughout month. $3/mo on Patreon.	Knotty Grids				Aam Levine, sporadic, frequently metas.	Outside The Box ($)	M	T	joon pahk - biweekly M variety puzzles, weekly T Rows Gardens. Variety subscription $15/yr, Rows Garden $20/yr, bundle for $30/year			Todd McClary	Some "Unthemely" archives available, though roughly 80 from this site and its forebears are dead dropbox links.
38	Monday Fills	M							Dave Murchie. Ranges from Wed-Fri difficulty, themeless every five weeks. Biweekly acrostics also available.	knxwords				Kunal Nabar. New in 2021.	Panda Magazine						Trip Payne	Variety of puzzle types created 2007-2013
39	Morning Brew					F			Monday difficulty level. .puz files not posted	Legs Crossed				Allegra Kuney. Thu/Fri difficulty.	Private Eye						Visual Thesaurus	A couple years' worth of monthly BEQ puzzles.
40	Muggle Meta Mondays	M							Weekly meta from rotating constructors.	LEO				Handful of puzzles by Trip Payne, but new posts lately have been word searches.	Puzzle Tome	1		Monthly Cryptic.			Will Johnston	Accompanies the VERY useful Will Johnston's Puzzle Pointers Page. Themed puzzles linked in the cell to the left, themeless linked in this cell.
41	New York Magazine	M							21x consistent with LAT/NYT Sunday. Matt Gaffney. .puz through XWord.	Lex Friedman					PuzzleCrypt archives						Women of Letters	18 puzzles from women constructors available with donation to women-centric charity of your choice.
42	New York Times ($)	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Increasing difficulty M-Sa, Su is 21x and roughly Wed. difficulty. Su-Th themed, F-Sa themeless. 26 years of archives, weekly variety puzzles, daily mini. Editor Will Shortz. $40/yr	Logodaedaly				Quarterly (?) newsletter, includes puzzles from Francis Heaney.	Puzzlesnacks			Monthly variety from Eric Berlin.
43	Newsday	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	M-F increasing difficulty, early week very accessible. Sat "Stumper" themeless at Sat+++ difficulty. Sun very accessible for new solvers. More topical than wordplay themes. Editor Stanley Newman. .puz through XWord solving software.	M & M Crosswords				Varying frequency of minis and midis from Martina Waluk.	Puzzling StackExchange
44	NYT Mini	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Joel Fagliano	Matt Jackson				Hasn't posted since early 2020.	r/crosswords
45	Pandora's Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword							SU	Weekly meta from Will Pfadenhauer, Brian MacDonald, Emma Oxford, Dani Raymond. On hiatus to Jan 2020	Max Puzzles				Frequent midis with weekly-ish 15x.	Redhead64's Obscure Puzzle Blog	M		Ryan Faley. Weekly variety puzzle.
46	Premier Crossword							SU	Frank Longo 21x. Easier than NYT Sun.	McAvoy-Bickford Crosswords				Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford. Only a few so far. Wed difficulty.	Split Decisions
47	QVXwordz	M			TH				Quiara Vasquez. Trends to the very difficult.	McGrids	17			Ryan McCarty. Likes to play with assymmetry, wide open grids. Sat difficulty.	Sydney Morning Herald
48	Rossword Puzzles							SU	Ross Trudeau, usually 15x at Wed difficulty. Frequent collaborations.	Mirthwright				Founded Dec 2020	The Browser ($)	SA		Weekly cryptic included in $5/mo newsletter subscription. Editor Dan Feyer. Construction team Nate Cardin, Sara Goodchild, Will Nediger, Paolo Pasco, Andrew Ries and Stella Zawistowski.
49	Southern Crosswords							SU	Weekly puzzle from Australian constructor currently on hiatus in Dec 2020. Occasional variety puzzles.	Muller Monthly Music Meta	T			Pete Muller, annual music-themed meta suite published in monthly installments. Midweek difficulty? Range of meta difficulty.	The Browser ($)			Weekly Cryptic from rotating cast of setters, edited by Dan Feyer. Trends a tough easier than Cox/Rathvon or Out of Left Field.
50	Sporcle							SU	Weekly Mon difficulty or so. Editor unknown.	Neville Fogarty				Neville has posted occasionally lately. Mix of varieties.	The Crossword Centre
51	Spyscape					F			Espionage-themed puzzles, edited Will Nediger. Wed difficult. .puz file unknown.	Norah's Puzzles				Norah Sharpe. New in 2021. Wed-Fri difficulty?	The Guardian			Weekday Cryptics
52	Square Pursuit			W					Alternating themed (Wed difficulty) and themelesses (Thu/Fri) from Steve Mossberg.	NYT bonus ($)	1st			Monthly by Fred Piscop	The Independent
53	Haymarket Squares					F			Ariel S. Regular minis, periodic larger puzzles.	Odd Bear Puzzles				Josh Audibert. Daily Minis, new in 2021.	The Telegraph
54	The HUB Crossword ($)							SU	21x Subscription from Brendan Emmett Quigley, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon. Starts at $3/mo on Patreon, bonus puzzles in higher tiers.	PGWCC	T			Previously weekly, now sporadic, meta from Peter Washington. Late-week fill difficulty, range of meta difficulty.	The Times (UK)
55	The New Yorker	M		W		F		SU	M/W/F themelesses in decreasing difficulty - roughly Sat/Thu/Tue-Wed. Archival cryptics on Sun. .puz access unknown.	Pocket Squares				Jasper Davidoff. Tue difficulty.	Tortoiseshell Studio			Variety Patreon subscription from Nathan Curtis.
56	The Week					F			Current events puzzle from Matt Gaffney. Tue difficulty. .puz file unknown.	Provincetown Independent				Sophia Maymudes, roughly monthly.	Wall Street Journal Variety	SA		Weekly variety from Mike Shenk, Patrick Berry, Cox/Rathvon.
57	Tough As Nails			W					Biweekly themelesses from Stella Zawistowski. Sat+ difficulty	Pun Of A Kind				Mike Graczyk, founded Dec 2020.
58	Trash Panda Puzzles		T			F			Jason "Jac: Crabtree. Tuesday Midis, Friday 15s. Tue/Wed difficulty?	Puzzles That Need A Home	8th	18th	28th	Brian Thomas, frequently themeless at late-week difficulty.
59	Universal Crossword	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Shallower difficulty increase, all themed. Additional Su 21x. Generally easier than NYT, especially weekend. Editor David Steinberg. .puz through Crossword Fiend.	Q&A				Quinn Abarr. Don't have a good sense yet.
60	Universal Sunday							SU	Editor David Steinberg. 21x. Significantly easier than NYT Sun.	r/Crossword				Crossword community on Reddit has a number of folks who post occasional puzzles. Some have their own blogs represented here.
61	USA Today	M	T	W	TH	F	SA	SU	Consistent M/T difficulty, all themed. Editor Erik Agard. .puz through XWord	Sanne's Puzzles				Posted one puzzle in Oct 2020. TBD.
62	Vox	M	T	W	TH	F	SA		M-F midis consistent difficulty, Sa 15x T difficulty. Closed constructor set: Juliana Tringali Golden, Patrick Blindauer, Adesina O. Koiki, Will Nediger, and Andrew J. Ries. .puz access unknown.	Shrink-Wrapped Puzzles				"Tim Othy". Wed difficulty.
63	Wall Street Journal	M	T	W	TH	F	SA		Difficulty increases M-Th, A day tougher than NYT with exception of weekly Meta puzzle on Fri. Sat 21x. All themed, weekly variety on Sat. Editor Mike Shenk. .puz from Crossword Fiend.	Sid's Grids				Sid Sivakumar. Frequent guest/collab puzzles, range in difficulty
64	Washington Examiner					F			Weekly-ish by Brendan Emmett Quigley, sometimes paywalled. Tue difficulty.	Starchwords				Starchy Grant. Established Dec 2020.
65	Washington Post							SU	Evan Birnholz 21x. Difficulty on par with NYT Sun. Metas and themelesses not uncommon,	The Juggernaut				Monthly-ish puzzle edited by Sid Sivakumar for Desi-focused publication.
66	Words Xing		T			F			Brendan Sullivan. Math infused puzzles, usually midis. Wed/Thu difficulty.	WordGarbler				Chris Piuma. Site founded Aug 2020. Likes to push the envelope format-wise. .puz files not posted.
67										World of Crosswords				First Sunday of each month. Haven't solved any yet.
68										xwords by a ladee	27th			Brooke Husic. Monthly themelesses and occasional demi puzzles with choose-your-own adventure hard (Fri) and extra hard (Sat-Sat+) clue sets
69										Yes!				Monthly puzzle by Patrick Blindauer. Tue difficulty.
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3	Collections/Not Updating	Notes
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5	Across to Bear	32 2010-2011 puzzles from then-Brown students, including recognizable names Zoe Wheeler, Natan Last, Jonah Kagan, Aimee Lucido
6	Alex Boisvert	A handful of puzzles. I'm not sure the original publish dates.
7	Alexa Shortbush	From Greg Johnson. Couple hundred puzzles, but tough to tell when updated
8	Beekeeper Labs	140 puzzles from 2007-2010
9	Blather Review	100+ puzzles from a wide time frame from Robert Jones, who I have not heard of. Haven't solved any yet.
10	Boswords	Annual Tournament expanding to multiple annual online events. Past puzzles available for purchase.
11	Bryant Park Tournament	Annual Tournament coordinated by Mike Shenk. Past puzzles available for purchase/made pay what you can during coronavirus pandemic.
12	Caroline's Cryptics	Collections from the Toronto Star available for purchase.
13	CHE	SUNSETTED FEB 2020 Consistent difficulty, themes fall into narrower range reflecting the publication. Midweek difficulty.
14	CRooked	REBOOTED as Hub Crosswords on Patreon. Hex and BEQ in Boston Magazine. Previously available for email subscription, similar vibe to Gaffney's New York Magazine puzzles.
15	Crossword Constructor's Handbook	From Patrick Berry. Comes with 70 puzzles alongside a manual to crossword construction for only 10$
16	Crossword Tournament From Your Couch	Groundbreaking online tournament first held 3/2020, with promise of more to come. Most puzzles available for download free.
17	CrosSynergy	It's darn tough to find any of these, since publication rights were returned to constructors as I understand, but a few dozen are here, thanks to the WayBack Machine
18	Cruciverbalist At Law	Good backlog of puzzles from Andy Kravis.
19	Dan Does Not Blog	Dan Feyer has indicated he'll be uploading scans of archival puzzles in the coming months. One batch of "Something Different"s is already up.
20	Devil Cross	Pre-WaPo Evan Birnholz
21	George Barany and Friends	Extensive archive of puzzles from a variety of constructors, often themed to current events of the time. I haven't solved many.
22	Glutton for Pun	Erik Agard. Rare puzzles nowadays, but a couple hundred in site archives.
23	Graham Rosby	Last posted in 2012. Haven't solved any yet.
24	Grids for Good	COVID-19/Antiracist charity puzzle pack released July 2020
25	Growler Magazine	DEFUNCT. Monthly puzzles for industry publication from Andrew Ries and Vic Barocas. Not solvable online, difficult to print.
26	Hex Cryptic archives	Repository of links to cryptics by Cox/Rathvon.
27	I Dreamed a Theme	Karl Ni and Amanda Chung. Haven't posted in a while, but have gotten a few puzzles into the NYT.
28	Nation Cryptic	SUNSETTED MAR 2020. Now "Out of Left Field Cryptics."
29	National Puzzler's League Cryptic Crosswords	.pdf collection of Kosman/Picciotto cryptics.
30	New York Sun	Defunct puzzle edited by Peter Gordon, pre-Fireball. Some puzzles are accessible at this link.
31	Patrick Berry	Various Cryptic/Variety packs available at his site
32	Patrick Blindauer	Half-dozen puzzle suites available at his site
33	Patti Varol	Prolific editor has 20+ sample puzzles on her site
34	Puzzles for Change, 20 under 30	Puzzle packs from longer ago - gotta dig up links
35	Queer Qrosswords and Queer Qrosswords 2	Amazing puzzle packs by LGBTQ+ constructors available with donation to LGBTQ+ charity of your choice.
36	Sheffer, Joseph	Syndicated puzzles under the King Features Syndicate.
37	The Cross Nerd	Peter Broda, 96 posts.
38	The Vulture	More (old) metas from Matt Gaffney.
39	Theresa's Cryptic Crosswords
40	Todd McClary	Some "Unthemely" archives available, though roughly 80 from this site and its forebears are dead dropbox links.
41	Trip Payne	Variety of puzzle types created 2007-2013
42	Visual Thesaurus	A couple years' worth of monthly BEQ puzzles.
43	Will Johnston	Accompanies the VERY useful Will Johnston's Puzzle Pointers Page. Themed puzzles linked in the cell to the left, themeless linked in this cell.
44	Women of Letters	18 puzzles from women constructors available with donation to women-centric charity of your choice.