if the Wordle word is also playable in Spelling Bee and appears on the Connections board, thats called a “hat trick". Bonus if it’s depicted on one of the Tiles

[Chump who never reads titles and is solving puzzle titled “This Puzzle Attacks You With A Katana”] : I sure hope there are no katana attacks in this puzzle

“This is your magnum opus !!” my fans chant from the opposite side of the piranha-infested Moat ; as i emerge from my palacial estate, tousling my silky locks. “Yes,” I bellow to the quieting crowd-, “you need not clamor any more, now that the world finally has crossword with CHICKEN JOCKEY theme ”

wrote a Spec Script

CONSTRUCTION TIP: each clue is supposed to have as many words as the entry has letters. A puzzle that doesn’t follow this rule is not a “true crossword” and will be rejected by any editor of sound mind

collabing on a baby and uploading the adoption form to the nyt submissions portal

going around the circle, each Council Member chooseing the next letter as we spell out the name of our next Crosswordese industry plant … the Council has decided: through the course of the next year we will normalise some guy named Alen Orer-Fump

oh HELLL no (submitted crossword to WSJ but they added eyelashes to the clues that “play easier for girls ”)

[Place to see stars] = RED CARPET but [Place to see stars, maybe] is still RED CARPET. the “maybe” is for whether or not the bouncer bought ur Danny devito disguise

WHAT DOES CROSSWORD CRITICISM LOOK LIKE IN A DIMENSION WHERE EVERYTHING IS GREEN? READ ON TO FIND OUT! "idk this entry seemed like paint"

my puzzles are a lil bit like Sbarro… Sometimes you get the Stromboli , Sometimes you get the Slice 🤷

I wish my kids would do this. nowadays I have to bribe them in there with Tcg pack openings and shit .

OUT for 2026 : Flipping your grid so the theme entries are vertical IN for 2026: Tilting your grid 45° and forcing the clue headers to be Downward Diagonal and Upward Diagonal

prepping for new years!!! they got me on the ball in Times Square just absolutely shrieking

yeah what's a new years resolution like for a crossword author lol... probably like " this year i am going to EKE"!! Ha ha ha [you try to talk to somebody else at the cocktail party but I grab your arm] Hey

In for 2026: Crosswords !!! Out for 2026: Clues. The answers should radiate an Aura in order to be solved. If they don’t want it you don’t get it

i like on a first crossword date when they, when they put pencil to paper and, when they really put pencil to paper and, umm, when they put the pencil Into the paper on the cross word date, and say umm, how the crossword on paper, the Penicil, useing the pencil , on our date, when they put the penci

I just used Shazam.com to discover "The San Jose Strut."

putting da finishing touches on my 250×250 Year Of Brainrot In Review crossword.. all of my testers died while solving, but you could be The Exception

can I get a Refund on New York Times Sunday Crossword Omnibus Vol 17. the puzzles ‘Tuezed’

hate WordleBot. “i would have guessed the Right word instead of the Wrong one” ok but you’ll never have the capacity to Love you stupid robot

my new charity initiative Crosswords For Dogs is social dynamite. $ 2 million in small-donation fundraising and the endorsement of Judge Judy and Stavros. now all we gotta do: Figure out how to make crosswords for these Damn Dogs!

Sudoku purists : scanning for “weak cells” and “Naked singles” 👀 .. oh NO—DEADLY PATERN!! CALL MY WIFE, sudoku “variant enjoyers”: We encoded a finite-domain constraint satisfaction problem over planar hypergraphs of king move adjacency. also, there is a fucking Rat in the grid .

hope yuo eagle eyed moviegoers saw my cameo in Marty Supreme... they got me playing the damn ball

everybody in crosswords wants to be That Guy with dead blog, tens dozens of 1099-NECs, 55% effective tax rate , & shoutout in PuzzleBarn.net's end of year Barn Burner Awards ( voted on by committee of various live stock)

my faborite feedback is when a solver says “ this felt like it was written by A.I.” bc it means my life long goal of sounding emotionally vacant & corporate is finally Paying off

what do you do when u hide ur baby’s name in a crossword and the crossword fiend calls it “bad fill” (Alotono Nesplate)

Puzzle 5 ended .. the 0.5 mm and 0.7 mm clans exited to the lobby and bared their lead to fight... Then da 0.9ers appeared. And everyone .shat their pants in reverence

apparently if i want a puzle to be published on Christmas day i "Have to Submit It Before December 24th ." okay sorry for not having all the insider knowledge in theworld ever

christmas morning for a Puzzler..

Official Statement: Im sorry my puzzle contained some names of people u did not know. going forward I will still do this , but i will also provide Source Material ( csv scrape of Imdb.com) for reference

fuck they printed my new york times sunday crossword in the sunday magazine. this totally strips the puzzle of its original context

started writing fan fiction about the popular words in Crossword Puzzles

wrote a puzzle so bad my based grandpa started rolling in his grave like rotisserie chicken, spinning faster and faster until he drilled his way out of the ground and started flying after me. he is like a swiss army man now #regrets

word list reveal

shout out to the fucker who added CLAM LARVAE to the popular word list. was struggling to fill a corner but thank God for CLAM LARVAE

ACPT confirmed my Early Access registration!! this year im seated in “Salon G overflow 4b", which sounds great until u learn its actually the Coat check

all the network execs whose Tv shows i mocked in my puzzles are PISSED!! and now theyre forcing me to pay for Jatzi, Quolo, Buxba & other such streamign services whose names maximize on Scrabble score

my puzles are so Cool , that jimmy fallon saw a wall street stock broker spooning with zohran mamdani

" Constructor Voice" nowadays is when they clue RED as [Colour I saw this morning]. the approrpiate response to this is to say "Thank You" for the glimpse into the life of another

crosswords are , a window to the soul. to solve is a ghostlike communication between the spirits of constructor and solver, at the highest purest level. for example this constructor loves anagrams of the word MEAT

Thinking i should put every one of my clues into quotation marks. so that Solvers read them all Out Loud ,on the Subway

my puzles are so Cool , that jimmy fallon saw a wall street stock broker spooning with zohran mamdani

Well i guess that ones a wash

MY THERAPIST: Minecraft Will Shortz isnt real , he can't hurt you ME: Thank You I agree MY THERAPIST: Thank You I agree ME: Thank You I agree

Fuck cluing LIEU . Dont even pretend u like doing that shit.

i got to meet the true Average Solver every editor thinks about. they keep them in an airlocked room under ground. unfortunately after a series of accidents i have Santa Clause'd them

nyt games app Year in Review said my playing style is "opens Spelling Bee whenever G, H, and O are in the puzzle and hits Shuffle until it spells HOG". i didnt know they could See that

Give a man a kakuro, he will look at you blankly and leave. Teach a man to kakuro , you are likely damning him to an eternal life of solitude. remember that actions have consequences.

Everybody in the club say "Ey-oh"! ("Ayo!") no can you guys just spell it EYOH like i did. please . I need this to blow up enough that crossword fiend calls it "an Asset"