This is the first time I've published a puzzle here on April Fools' Day. But I didn't plan ahead for it at all - no shenanigans in this one (pdf, puz, pdf solution), aside from my usual ones. Below the grid, after a spoiler space: the solution to the meta from a few weeks ago, Word Cloud. S P O I L E R S The Word Cloud meta featured two grids that were placed back-to-back. Here's the solution to Grid A: And Grid B: Something that might jump out at you is that the top row of Grid A has no letters other than A and B, which suggests that that row is a guide as to which columns you should f ..read more

Yet again, today's puzzle (PDF only) is really a pair of puzzles. It's PDF-only for a specific reason - it has assembly instructions! There are two puzzles, labeled A and B. You can either print out the PDF double-sided, or print it single-sided, and then glue the pages together so that grid B is directly behind grid A. Then, after solving the puzzles, cut out the grids and cut them into 15 strips, one for each column, making sure to keep them in the same order. Then you'll be able to solve the meta, whose answer is the song that partially inspired this puzzle. (The puzzle also has a ..read more

Only two theme entries in this one (pdf, puz, pdf solution), but sometimes two is all you need, you know ..read more

It's been a while but I'm back with a new puzzle (pdf, puz, pdf solution)! More to come soon, hopefully ..read more

By an odd quirk of scheduling, I've got 11 puzzles scheduled, in 8 different venues, in the 11 days from December 21 to December 31 this year. This is what I do for a living, so I have to write a lot of puzzles. But I'm also kind of like the bourgeois image of the writer as Roland Barthes describes it in "The Writer on Holiday": "The writer is the prey of an inner god who speaks at all times, without bothering, tyrant that he is, with the holidays of his medium. Writers are on holiday, but their Muse is awake, and gives birth non-stop." Constructing crosswords is so ingrained in my nature that ..read more

Themed puzzle with good vibes today (pdf, puz, pdf solution). Accidental mini-themes include food, sex, and Portuguese-language literature (the three good things in life ..read more

I'm back with another collab with the great Brooke Husic (pdf, puz, pdf solution)! I told Brooke that I was making a puzzle suite inspired by one of my favorite things, and she came up with this theme idea as an announcement for the suite. Details about the suite below (spoilers for the revealer, so don't look until after you've solved the puzzle!). Brooke says: "i know nothing about the topic of this puzzle except that it might make a good revealer. i'm glad will agreed and was down to include me in the promo for his pack!" S P O I L E R S Thanks to the good folks at A24, I recently ..read more

Yet again, it's been almost a month since my last puzzle. But here's a new puzzle (pdf, puz, pdf solution) whose theme, as you might have surmised from the title, is phrases that end with "act ..read more

It's been almost a month since my last post! I've been working on a puzzle suite, hence my relative radio silence. But here's a new puzzle to tide you over (pdf, puz, pdf solution ..read more

Another puzzle with no .puz option, because of all the pictures - it's getting to be a habit with me (pdf, pdf solution). Happy solving ..read more