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Crosswords

• Solutions from a calendar
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• Sunday puzzles listed by date with titles
• Puzzles with circles or shaded squares
• Rebus puzzles (symbols or multiple letters in a single square)
• Grids with the fewest blocks or most blocks
• Grids with the fewest words or most words
• Fewest Sunday block or words counts
• Puzzles with the longest avg. word length
• Grids with the Highest Flow or the Lowest Flow
• Unusual symmetry and asymmetry
• Pangrams and puzzles with the fewest letters used
• Scrabble scores: highest daily, lowest daily, highest Sunday, lowest Sunday
• Schrödinger puzzles aka quantum crosswords
• Most wide open grids
• Answers that float outside the grid
• Text or images in black squares
• Backward answers
• Grids with embedded graphics
• Connect the dots on grids
• Record stacks and some notable 15s
• Grids with unchecked squares
• Grids with no short answers or with very short answers
• Uniclue puzzles
• Oddly shaped or sized grids
• The Freshest or the Least Fresh crosswords
• Most common grid patterns
• Patrick Berry's 2011 special six-part "Cross" word contest puzzles and solutions
• Eugene T. Maleska's stepquotes
• The six 1999 Millennium puzzles.
• Will Shortz picks his favorite puzzles and his favorite constructors
• Puzzles with Editor comments
• Will Shortz provides a clue-by-clue analysis of how he edits a crossword
• Puzzles with Notepads or Jim's personal notes
• Jeff Chen's Puzzles of the Week: solve them or view grids with comments or constructors
• Grids with duplicate answer words
• Duplicate clues
• The Misenko grid duplicates
• Stats about NYT Puzzle Editors
• Messages hidden in clues
• Double-high or double-wide squares

Words and Letters

Modern Era

• Most popular answer words
• Most popular words by length
• All Fifteen-letter words sorted alphabetically
• Even longer words sorted by length
• Debut words in the past month
• Debut words by year
• Most answers of each length
• Record setting letter counts
• Puzzles with both specified words
• Most frequently used clues
• Pictures in the clues
• Heat maps showing likely block locations
• Word bars (frequency by year)

All Time

• Most popular words by length
• Missing words not found in any puzzles
• Random unique words

Constructors

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• Most prolific authors (baseball cards)
• Constructors from the past 45 days
• Celebrity Constructors
• Puzzle counts by day of week
• Puzzle counts by year
• Pangrams sorted by constructor
• Shortz Number and puzzle totals
• Highest lifetime Scrabble average
• Highest lifetime Flow average
• Freshest constructors
• Constructors with the most collaborators
• 892 Photos from the Modern Era
• Debut words by constructor
• Debuts by year
• Variety puzzle constructors
• Youngest constructors
• Oldest known constructors
• Women constructors
• Puzzles by the JASA Crossword Class
• Alternate constructor names
• Biographies
• Constructor bars (counts by year)

Personal collections

• Grid Art — puzzles that caught my eye
• Puzzles with interesting visual elements

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Other puzzle links

• Will Shortz shares how he recovered from a stroke
• The Crossword Puzzle Moment
• The New York Times Crosswords "It" Words of 2022
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Crossword blogs

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NYT Solve & Print links

• nytimes.com links for recent puzzles
• Solver links organized by constructor
• Solver links from a calendar

About the Database

We have 27,815 crosswords.

• 16,083 pre-Shortz puzzles back to the first on Sunday, February 15, 1942
• 11,732 Modern Era crosswords up to Saturday, January 3, 2026

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