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257            <p>All crosswords from the blog</p>
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263            <h3>"Innervisions" Series</h3>
264            <p>Puzzles inspired by Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions" album</p>
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270            <h3>Kaidoku</h3>
271            <p>Also known as "coded crosswords", kaidoku are a mix between sudoku and crosswords</p>
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277            <h3>"Marx Brothers" Series</h3>
278            <p>Puzzles inspired by the Marx Brothers movies</p>
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284            <h3>"Yacht Rock" Series</h3>
285            <p>Crosswords inspired by the YouTube "Yacht Rock" series</p>
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300            <h3>AVCX × Crossword Nexus</h3>
301            <p>Solve AVCX puzzles in your browser via our interface</p>
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307            <h3>Jonesin'</h3>
308            <p>Solve Matt Jones's latest crossword</p>
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314            <h3>Patreon Acrostics</h3>
315            <p>Support the site and solve some fun puzzles</p>
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328           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/acrostic/" class="link-tile">
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330               <h3>Acrostic Machine</h3>
331               <p>Build your own acrostic puzzles</p>
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337               <h3>Consonant Companions</h3>
338               <p>Make a "Consonant Companions" puzzle</p>
339             </div>
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342           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/spiral/crushword.html" class="link-tile">
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344               <h3>Crushword Spiral</h3>
345               <p>Make a spiral with multiple letters in each space</p>
346             </div>
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349           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/hexagon_lexicon/build_your_own.html" class="link-tile">
350             <div class="tile-content">
351               <h3>Hexagon Lexicon Builder</h3>
352               <p>Build a hexagon-based word search game</p>
353             </div>
354           </a>
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356           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/flower-power/" class="link-tile">
357             <div class="tile-content">
358               <h3>Flower Power</h3>
359               <p>Make a "flower power" puzzle</p>
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363           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/going-too-far/" class="link-tile">
364             <div class="tile-content">
365               <h3>Going Too Far</h3>
366               <p>Make a "Going Too Far" puzzle</p>
367             </div>
368           </a>
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370           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/jelly-roll/" class="link-tile">
371             <div class="tile-content">
372               <h3>Jelly Roll</h3>
373               <p>Make a Jelly Roll puzzle</p>
374             </div>
375           </a>
376
377           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/rows-garden/" class="link-tile">
378             <div class="tile-content">
379               <h3>Rows Gardens</h3>
380               <p>Make yourself a rows garden puzzle</p>
381             </div>
382           </a>
383
384           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/snake_charmer/" class="link-tile">
385             <div class="tile-content">
386               <h3>Snake Charmer</h3>
387               <p>🐍 Create a variety puzzle that snakes around a grid 🐍</p>
388             </div>
389           </a>
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391           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/spiral/" class="link-tile">
392             <div class="tile-content">
393               <h3>Spirals</h3>
394               <p>🌀 Build a puzzle that spirals around 🌀</p>
395             </div>
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398           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/seven-sages/" class="link-tile">
399             <div class="tile-content">
400               <h3>Stained Glass</h3>
401               <p>
401Make a "stained glass" (or "seven sages") puzzle</p>
402             </div>
403           </a>
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405           <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/variety-tools/two-tone/" class="link-tile">
406             <div class="tile-content">
407               <h3>Two-Tone</h3>
408               <p>Make a two-tone puzzle</p>
409             </div>
410           </a>
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413      </div>
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418      <div class="category-header">Cluing/Theming</div>
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421        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/double-occupancy/" class="link-tile">
422          <div class="tile-content">
423            <h3>Double Occupancy</h3>
424            <p>Find entries where both parts can precede or follow a given word</p>
425          </div>
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427
428        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/onion-clues" class="link-tile">
429          <div class="tile-content">
430            <h3>Onion Clues</h3>
431            <p>Make clues from "The Onion" headlines</p>
432          </div>
433        </a>
434
435        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/crossword-quip-parser/" class="link-tile">
436          <div class="tile-content">
437            <h3>Quip Parser</h3>
438            <p>Split a quip into symmetric parts for a crossword</p>
439          </div>
440        </a>
441
442        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/roman-numeral-clues/" class="link-tile">
443          <div class="tile-content">
444            <h3>Roman Numeral Clues</h3>
445            <p>For God's sake don't use this</p>
446          </div>
447        </a>
448
449        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/umiaq" class="link-tile">
450          <div class="tile-content">
451            <h3>Umiaq</h3>
452            <p>Do some advanced pattern matching on a word list</p>
453          </div>
454        </a>
455
456        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/wiki/" class="link-tile">
457          <div class="tile-content">
458            <h3>Wikipedia Search</h3>
459            <p>Perform regex lookups on Wikipedia titles</p>
460          </div>
461        </a>
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472        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.github.io/html5-crossword-solver/share.html" class="link-tile">
473          <div class="tile-content">
474            <h3>Crossword Sharing</h3>
475            <p>Share your crosswords far and wide</p>
476          </div>
477        </a>
478
479        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/export-clues-and-entries/" class="link-tile">
480          <div class="tile-content">
481            <h3>Export Clues</h3>
482            <p>Export clues and entries from a puzzle file into a CSV</p>
483          </div>
484        </a>
485
486        <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/submission_check/" class="link-tile">
487          <div class="tile-content">
488            <h3>Submission Checker</h3>
489            <p>Check your puzzle before submitting it somewhere</p>
490          </div>
491        </a>
492
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502        <a href="https://tinyurl.com/xw-collab" class="link-tile">
503          <div class="tile-content">
504            <h3>Collaborative Crossword Sheet</h3>
505            <p>Work with collaborators to make a puzzle</p>
506          </div>
507        </a>
508
509        <a href="https://tinyurl.com/make-ipuz" class="link-tile">
510          <div class="tile-content">
511            <h3>iPuz Maker</h3>
512            <p>Make an iPuz where the clues are decoupled from the entries</p>
513          </div>
514        </a>
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518            <h3>Wisdom of Salomon</h3>
519            <p>Play around with our "Six Degrees" tool for collaborators</p>
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540<p> PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Hello! Here is a puzzle. How do you solve said puzzle? The four grids in this puzzle are shapeshifters. In each grid, the two staircase-shaped sections can be pushed together vertically or horizontally, forming two different sets of words reading across. For example, the upper-left grid can form four 5-letter...<p class="more-link-wrap"><a class="more-link" href="https://crosswordnexus.com/blog/2026/09/18/puzzle-159/">Read More<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Puzzle #159: Roll It Back (shapeshifters!)&#8221;</span> &#187;</a></p></p>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.