Puzzle Pointers 2008

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Daily

New York Times daily -- Will Shortz, editor -- subscription required
[today] [2008] [puzzle page]
search by constructor [Mon-Sat] [Sunday]

Los Angeles Times daily -- Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis, eds.
[recent] -- requires being logged in at www.cruciverb.com
search by constructor [Mon-Sat] [Sunday]

CrosSynergy Syndicate daily -- Houston Chronicle
[today] [recent] [puzzle page]
search by constructor [Mon-Sun]

Creators Syndicate daily -- Newsday -- Stanley Newman, ed.
[2008] [puzzle page]

New York Sun Mon-Fri -- Peter Gordon, ed.
[2008 puz] [2008 zip] [puzzle page]
search by constructor [Mon-Fri]

Once a Week

Onion Wednesday Puzzles -- Ben Tausig, ed.
[2008] [2007]

Jonesin' Thursday Puzzles -- Matt Jones
[2008] [2007]

Wall Street Journal Friday Puzzles -- Mike Shenk, ed.
[2008] [2007]

Village Voice Friday Puzzles -- Ben Tausig, ed.
[2008] [2007]

Chronicle of Higher Education Friday Puzzles -- Patrick Berry, ed.
[2008] [2007] [puzzle page]

Sundays

Boston Globe Sunday Puzzles -- Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon; Henry Hook
[2008]

Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Puzzles -- Merl Reagle
[2008] [puzzle page]

Washington Post Sunday Puzzles -- Fred Piscop, ed.
[2008] [recent] [puzzle page]
search by constructor [Sunday]

Cryptic Crosswords

Cru Cryptics by NYT Forum participants
http://world.std.com/~wij/puzzles/cru/

Kegler's Kryptics -- Ron Sweet
http://www.lafn.org/~keglerron/kegler.html

Puzzlecrypt -- John de Cuevas
http://www.puzzlecrypt.com

Guide to Solving Cryptics
http://query.nytimes.com/premium/xword/cryptics.html

Other Puzzles

Ray Hamel's Crossword Puzzle Links Page -- the mother lode
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/cp.html

Barry Haldiman's NYT Puzzle Databases
http://home.everestkc.net/nytxword/index.htm

Resources

Online Dictionaries -- quick interface to MW10, RH2, AHD and others
http://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/xyzzy/dictionaries.html

Cruciverb.com Constructor Community Center -- Kevin McCann
http://www.cruciverb.com

Crossword Construction lecture notes -- Will Johnston
http://world.std.com/~wij/puzzles/xword-construction.pdf

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Nancy Shack, Lloyd Mazer, Martin Herbach, and John Minarcik for making and hosting .puz files; to Barry Haldiman for maintaining the lists sorted by constructor; and to Merle Baker for JavaScript code that assists the "today" puzzle links.

Page maintained by Will Johnston.
Revised: 31 December 2007

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