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American Crossword Puzzle Tournament The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, founded in 1978, and held annually in Stamford, CT, is the world's oldest and largest crossword event. It is directed by Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times. Solvers race to complete a series of puzzles specially commissioned from top puzzlemakers. Prizes are awarded in 21 categories. Guest speakers, informal word games, and a wine-and-cheese reception add to a fun, relaxing atmosphere.

Ask Oxford For assistance with English grammar, spelling, usage, and writing; to search a dictionary of words, names or quotations; for help ; for crosswords and puzzles; and to learn about language just ask the Oxford experts.

Classroom Crossword Puzzle Sets A collection of educational crossword puzzle sets. Subjects included are U.S. and World History, Civics, Geography, Economics, Historic Dates, 20th Century in Review, World's Countries & Leaders, World's Great Authors, and World's Great Artists. Most subject areas contain a sample puzzle.

Cluemaster This is a great site for puzzle lovers. Contains a 1000 free pages of puzzles, including wordsearches, acrostics, and crosswords. Offers "quick fix" puzzles to unregistered visitors, and many more to visitors who opt for the free registration and become members. Also features an on-line bookstore.

Crickler Daily Crossword This new type of crossword puzzle adapts to your skill level. There is a new puzzle every day.

Crossword Adventures with Oxbrain Illustrated adventure stories with themed crosswords complementing the storyline.

Crossword Essay A rather lengthy essay on pretty much every aspect of American-style crossword puzzles.

Crosswords, Word Puzzles and More Each day, a new crossword and wordseach is uploaded for printing. Hundreds already in the archives.

Crosswordsite Hundreds of easy and cryptic US and UK crosswords. Can be solved online or printed and solved on paper. Great fun, and all the puzzles are family-friendly.

Daily Crossword.com This is a very good, simple crossword site. Features a new crossword each day, as well as hundreds of backlogged puzzles from previous days and weeks. Each day has three difficulty levels to choose from. This site also allows you the option of saving or printing the puzzle that you are working on.

DiscoverySchool's Puzzlemaker Free.... teachers/ students/ homeschoolers/ make your own puzzles; all types; can be printed.

Enigma First Croatian Crossword Puzzles on WWW. Hundreds of easy and cryptic Croatian crosswords.

Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles A great site for kids and lower-middle elementary school teachers. Features a variety of puzzles that educate young students on subjects such as nouns, the solar system, the American Revolution, and more. Puzzles are formatted into acrostics, picture builders, connect the dots, backbones and crosswords. This site features some neat graphics for kids.

MacNamara's Band Inc. Crossword Puzzles This site features hundreds of downloadable crossword puzzles by Time magazine editor Fred Piscop. All downloads and services are free. Also offers custom-made puzzles (for a fee) for your company and personalized puzzles for your friends and family.

Puzzle Choice This site containes interactive and printable crosswords to choose from. US and UK styles, giant, theme, cryptic, anagram, crisscross, wordfit plus other word puzzles and games for all ages.

Questiqu - strategy crossword game Questique is a strategy crossword board game, rare amongst skill based games, as it can be played by children, families and adults. A simple handicapping system allows mixed ability groups to all compete as equals.

Quizland Crossword of the Day This site offers a new crossword each day and keeps the puzzles backlogged for a week. Also offers the option for a "much harder" crossword of the day. All of the puzzles on this site are free.

refdesk.com Crosswords A very good crossword puzzle index with links to 87 sites containing crossword puzzles.

Sue Gleason's Double Crostic Puzzle Page traditional quote-base acrostic puzzles, playable in online contests. One per week for the public, three for subscribers.

Sun-Herald Crossword A daily crossword puzzle from the Sun-Herald Newspaper. You have the choice between two difficulty settings: regular or master. This site contains a print option.

The Australian Crossword Club Aussie crosswords.

The New York Times: Crosswords The New York Times Crosswords section offers the following features for all visitors, with a free registration: A free classic puzzle from the New York Times archive every week; Crossword forums; and Trivia quizzes, cartoons, bridge and chess columns. The features for Premium Crosswords subscribers include: Online access to the daily crossword puzzle.; New ways to play, including Play Against the Clock, Play with a Friend, and (coming soon) Challenge Matches; Top ten tallies of the first, fastest, and most recent solvers of today’s puzzle; and The ability to save partially completed puzzles.

Third Age Crosswords This site offers a daily crossword with a choice between two difficulty levels. Also has features that allow you to solve portions of a puzzle when you are stuck but do not want to view the entire solution.