American Crosswords

A selection of links to other sites for fans of U.S. crosswords:

American Crossword Puzzle Tournament: Directed by New York Times Crossword Puzzle Editor, Will Shortz, this is the oldest and largest crossword competition in the USA. The website provides reports of the last annual crossword tournament (Feb 29 - March 2, 2008), details of the next tournament (February 27 - March 1, 2009), plus plenty of other interesting information.
Cruciverb.com: An invaluable site for dedicated crossword enthusiasts. Includes constructors' discussion forum and over 50 crosswords by various constructors in HTML or Across Lite format.
Dell Magazines Daily Crossword: A daily crossword in Adobe Acrobat format for printing out and solving with pencil and paper. Enjoy easier-to-solve puzzles from Monday to Thursday, and step up to harder crosswords on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Heritage Newspapers Daily Crossword: A daily crossword in Across Lite (Java) format from the CrosSynergy syndicate. CrosSynergy's team of crossword constructors includes such well-known names as Harvey Estes, Raymond Hamel, Frank A. Longo, Fred Piscop and Mel Rosen.
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword: You can play the most recent 30 days of the the Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword for free. The puzzle uses Macromedia's Flash (.swf) technology.
MacNamara's Band Inc. Crossword Puzzles: The home pages of crossword constructor Fred Piscop. First-rate puzzles including some that previously appeared in Crossw_rd magazine. Fred also offers to provide custom-made crosswords.
New York Times Crossword: The famous New York Times crossword is available online - with over 2,000 puzzles from the archive. Annual or monthly subscription. If you dont want to pay for the subscription, you can enjoy a free weekly puzzle from the online archive.
Random House Crosswords: The world's largest publisher of puzzle books. Sample puzzles can be downloaded in pdf format (requiring Acrobat Reader).
Thinks.com Daily Crossword: A free daily crossword to solve online or to print and solve with pencil and paper.
Time.com Crossword Puzzle: This site no longer has a weekly online crossword, but you can view an archive of past puzzles by veteran constructor Fred Piscop.
Toronto Star: Two daily crosswords to play online or to print out.
USA Today Crossword: The most recent two weeks of the USA TODAY crossword are available for free. Subscribers have access to the complete archive of USA TODAY crosswords.
Washington Post.com: Six types of puzzle from which to choose: The Washington Post Sunday Crossword, The washingtonpost.com Daily Crossword, The Washington Post TV Crossword, Sudoku, PlayFour! and Crickler.