General Crossword Puzzles and Crosswords

1	Leap Year Lunacy (Part I) The ninth of 26 puzzles written for a November 2024 personal challenge. There is a connection between these crosswords: determining it is left to the solver. Enjoy!	General	Small Puzzle	76 plays	Dec 07 25	psnz
2	Leap Year Lunacy (Part H) The eighth of 26 puzzles written for a November 2024 personal challenge. There is a connection between these crosswords: determining it is left to the solver. Enjoy!	General	Small Puzzle	268 plays	Nov 27 25	psnz
3	Leap Year Lunacy (Part G) The seventh of 26 puzzles written beginning in November 2024 as a personal challenge. There is a connection between these crosswords: determining it is left to the solver. Enjoy!	General	Small Puzzle	272 plays	Nov 17 25	psnz
4	Surrounding Here you will find words that might surround you, go around something or encircle an object. You'll find other words too, of course.	General	Small Puzzle	410 plays	Nov 14 25	spanishliz
5	Leap Year Lunacy (Part F) The sixth of 26 puzzles written beginning in November 2024 as a personal challenge. There is a connection between these crosswords: determining it is left to the solver. Enjoy!	General	Small Puzzle	222 plays	Nov 12 25	psnz
6	Pangram Puzzler 2 Another Phoenix Rising team crossword challenge! The brief: create a triple pangram in a large grid. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to determine whether I can count. Is this puzzle a single, double or triple pangram? Or is it a sneaky quadruple?	General	Large Puzzle	618 plays	Oct 31 25	leith90
7	Team Challenge: Triple Pangram Part of the current Phoenix Rising Team Crossword Challenge is to create a large triple pangram. In this puzzle, the answer grid contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet, at least three times. Enjoy!	General	Large Puzzle	237 plays	Oct 30 25	psnz
8	E's the Key The letter E's deserted the legend we see here. Nevertheless, let me beseech ye - persevere! Be never vexed; the key teems, per the effervescent E! (American English, abbreviations noted by 'abbr.')	General	Medium Puzzle	529 plays	Oct 26 25	etymonlego
9	Quick Pangram I Need a quick crossword over that cup of coffee? This crossword fits the bill, even the clues have been kept short. A pangram to boot - that should make it a bit easier for you. Good Luck.	General	Small Puzzle	564 plays	Oct 24 25	1nn1
10	Pangram Puzzler Time for another Phoenix Rising team crossword challenge, this time involving pangrams. In this puzzle the brief was to fit a double pangram into a medium grid. For added fun, all the clues are alliterative.	General	Medium Puzzle	247 plays	Oct 23 25	leith90
11	Team Challenge: Double Pangram Part of the current Phoenix Rising Team Crossword Challenge is to create a medium double pangram. In this puzzle, the answer grid contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet, at least twice. Enjoy!	General	Medium Puzzle	216 plays	Oct 23 25	psnz
12	A Double Serving A mix of clues. When you finish you will find that the initial letter of each Down word spells out a motivational message. Any anagrams are marked (anag.) and homophones (sound like other words) are marked (aud.). Two clues are given for each word with a comma separating them. British spelling where different.	General	Small Puzzle	378 plays	Oct 20 25	suomy
13	Team Challenge: Single Pangram Part of the current Phoenix Rising Team Crossword Challenge is to create a small single pangram. In this puzzle, the answer grid contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet, at least once. Enjoy!	General	Small Puzzle	330 plays	Oct 15 25	psnz
14	Hope Shines Hope shines through some of the clues and answers in this crossword, but I hope the grid itself will also make you smile :)	General	Medium Puzzle	554 plays	Oct 12 25	Fifiona81
15	Salmagundi Smorgasbord (56) A series of experimental crosswords, with a variety of puzzle sizes, grid designs and clue types. Three anagrams may help with uncommon words. Enjoy!	General	Medium Puzzle	304 plays	Oct 08 25	psnz
16	Word Wizarding (25) Here's another installment in a subversive plot to publicise 11-letter words submitted to FunTrivia's Word Wizard game. Such events do not happen very often, so it was a big surprise to produce #39 (8D) and #40 (32A) over just two days. About that time, players weissmarc (1A) and Dagny1 (12D) also came to the party. Please enjoy this celebratory crossword containing four anagrams.	General	Medium Puzzle	1352 plays	Sep 29 25	psnz
17	A Bit More of This and That 41 Just a fairly straightforward general knowledge puzzle for when you have a few minutes. I hope you will enjoy playing.	General	Medium Puzzle	7567 plays	Sep 19 25	windrush
18	A Failed Attempt This was an unsuccessful attempt to complete a contract. It is, however, a successful attempt to complete a crossword puzzle.	General	Medium Puzzle	6962 plays	Sep 19 25	bernie73
19	Just Another Double Pangram Double pangrams are not easy for this author. The challenge this time was to achieve it with only thirty six clues. Solve the crossword to determine if the brief was met.	General	Medium Puzzle	8114 plays	Sep 17 25	1nn1
20	Word Wizarding (24) It is always a joyous moment in FunTrivia's famous hourly word game, when you realise that you can produce an 11-letter word. Better yet when the Wizard deigns to accept it. In my slow race towards 50 such words, number 38 (8D) suddenly turned up. Previously, player paulmallon had found 12D; while a short time later, weissmarc (1A) and fado72 (32A) had their own successes. Please enjoy the latest in this series of puzzles, which seeks to celebrate these achievements, along with seven anagrams.	General	Medium Puzzle	10872 plays	Sep 12 25	psnz
21	Peabo Bryson playlist This quiz includes a number of songs performed by Peabo Bryson. Unless otherwise stated, all clues are in US English.	General	Medium Puzzle	11138 plays	Sep 11 25	bernie73
22	A Spray of Colour In this Phoenix Rising team challenge the object was to create a crossword where more than 70% of clues pertain to colours. Solve the crossword and see if the brief was met.	General	Small Puzzle	11704 plays	Sep 10 25	1nn1
23	A Bit Less of This and That 20 Just a little puzzle for your coffee break. I hope you'll enjoy it.	General	Small Puzzle	12481 plays	Sep 08 25	windrush
24	Salmagundi Smorgasbord (55) A series of experimental crosswords, with a variety of puzzle sizes, grid designs and clue types. Enjoy!	General	Medium Puzzle	12165 plays	Sep 08 25	psnz
25	Topics from A to Z #3 A puzzle using all the 26 letters of the alphabet.	General	Small Puzzle	14136 plays	Sep 01 25	sw11
26	Word Wizarding (23) Oh joy! My 37th 11-letter word (8D) in Fun Trivia's Word Wizard game appeared not long after player JudithCrafard's success (32A). In the following days, Kabdanis (12D) and strnog1 (1A) also achieved this rare feat. Please enjoy this puzzle which includes four anagrams.	General	Medium Puzzle	13609 plays	Aug 31 25	psnz
27	A Crossword for You #3 I sharpened up a brand new pencil just to write this puzzle. I hope you like it.	General	Small Puzzle	13774 plays	Aug 27 25	CmdrK
28	Lots of Vowels With a pair of exceptions, this crossword puzzle has two types of words: three letter words with two vowels each or five letter words with three vowels each.	General	Small Puzzle	13695 plays	Aug 27 25	bernie73
29	Salmagundi Smorgasbord (54) A series of experimental crosswords, with a variety of puzzle sizes, grid designs and clue types. There is one anagram. Enjoy!	General	Large Puzzle	11810 plays	Aug 20 25	psnz
30	Noughts and Crosswords Play tic-tac-toe! The four corners, centre square and the middle square on the outer rows and columns contain either an 'X' or an 'O'. Which letter will win? Or will it be a draw?	General	Small Puzzle	7859 plays	Aug 15 25	leith90

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