American Crosswords

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

American Crossword Puzzle Tournament: Reports of the last annual crossword tournament in Stamford, Connecticut (March 24-26, 2006), details of the next tournament (March 23-25, 2007), 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.