Where can I find free cryptic crosswords?

chrisqqgx4 · 11th November 2003, 05:32 AM

Ever since the English broadsheets (Times, Telegraph, Guardian) made their online crosswords chargeable, I have been suffering a lack of decent cryptic puzzles.

I offer you this site - The Crossword Centre - in the hope others know of similar sites.

I don't have knowledge of any US newspapers with free crosswords either online or for download, so they'd be particularly welcome.

Skeptoid · 11th November 2003, 11:10 AM

Here's the first three results from a Google search on "cryptic crosswords":

http://thinks.com/crosswords/cryptic/cryptic.htm

http://www.execulink.com/~tagies/

http://thinks.com/crosswords/cryptic/cryptic.htm

Once I started solving cryptics, I never went back to the regular type. Jeff Corey is a big fan of them as well.

Rat · 12th November 2003, 07:00 AM

I do subscribe to the Times online crosswords, because it's only £10 or so per year for access to the best crosswords in the world, and it saves me paying 50p a day for a paper which I often don't read aside from the crossword. It offers the standard Times, plus the Jumbos, the Listener (supposedly the hardest cryptic in the world), and several others.

Last time I checked, you could do them online, but not print them, without paying (though you had to register for free). This may not be the case anymore.

Of course, I could just give out my user name and password, so all here could take part, but I guess that'd be unethical.

Cheers,
Rat.

11th November 2003, 05:32 AM	#1
chrisqqgx4 Critical Thinker Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 291	Where can I find free cryptic crosswords? Ever since the English broadsheets (Times, Telegraph, Guardian) made their online crosswords chargeable, I have been suffering a lack of decent cryptic puzzles. I offer you this site - The Crossword Centre - in the hope others know of similar sites. I don't have knowledge of any US newspapers with free crosswords either online or for download, so they'd be particularly welcome.

12th November 2003, 07:00 AM	#3
Rat Not bored. Never bored. Moderator Join Date: May 2003 Location: Leicester, UK Posts: 7,050	I do subscribe to the Times online crosswords, because it's only £10 or so per year for access to the best crosswords in the world, and it saves me paying 50p a day for a paper which I often don't read aside from the crossword. It offers the standard Times, plus the Jumbos, the Listener (supposedly the hardest cryptic in the world), and several others. Last time I checked, you could do them online, but not print them, without paying (though you had to register for free). This may not be the case anymore. Of course, I could just give out my user name and password, so all here could take part, but I guess that'd be unethical. Cheers, Rat.
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11th November 2003, 11:10 AM	#2
Skeptoid Graduate Poster Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,532	Here's the first three results from a Google search on "cryptic crosswords": http://thinks.com/crosswords/cryptic/cryptic.htm http://www.execulink.com/~tagies/ http://thinks.com/crosswords/cryptic/cryptic.htm Once I started solving cryptics, I never went back to the regular type. Jeff Corey is a big fan of them as well.