It has been a while, hasn't it? New freestyle for youse today because why not? Be careful with this one... FREESTYLE #39 PDF PUZ
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A few news items and a new vowelless puzzle today: My boy Evan Birnholz made his auspicious Washington Post debut yesterday: solve it here . Evan's new WP venture is the most exciting thing to...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2015/12/xtr-xtr-brkng-nws.html
Whipped up this grid a few weeks ago just for yuks and finally got around to cluing it. Enjoy! FREESTYLE #38 PUZ PDF
The answer to last week's meta, Romantic Foreplay, is now posted on the Meta Solutions page. Also, remember that there was another meta, That's the Spirit!, posted a few days ago. The solution to...
I know I said that I wouldn't be back until Friday, but I was inspired by the puzzling atmosphere of the ACPT to cook up another puzzle. By the way, it was nice to see so many of you in Stamford....
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2015/04/surprise-puzzle.html
It's been a while, and for that I apologize. Been busy working on the Indie 500 and running a weekly pub trivia and being a family man. Anyway, new meta puzzle for you today, called ROMANTIC ...
Been busy lately with a new sorta-puzzle-related project. A few friends and I will be hosting a pub trivia night, beginning this Sunday evening. If you're in the greater Regina area (extremely un...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2015/01/trivial-matters.html
Happy holidays everybody. I posted a pretty tough meta puzzle last week, and between then and yesterday morning 21 answers were submitted for the Anny Get Your Gun meta contest puzzle; 19 of them...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/12/trigger-warning.html
Contest time at the Cross Nerd. Get the meta answer in to me (peter.bananarchy at gmail) by Christmas morning (12:01am CST, Dec 25, 2014, specifically). Despite the timing, though, the meta and p...
We're now taking submissions for the Indie 500 tournament! The 5 organizers (Andy, Erik, Evan, Neville, and myself) will each write a puzzle, but the sixth one will be by one of you. We're open t...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/11/show-us-what-ya-got.html
I collaborated with Erik Agard on his latest freestyle puzzle . Before you go thinking that I somehow acquired a sense of humour since we last spoke, I should tell you that EA wrote all of the cl...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/10/i-collaborated-with-erik-agard-on-his.html
Writing to you from beautiful and scenic Denver, Colorado, and I'm about to head out to sample the local libations so I'll keep this brief. Been a while since I've had a puzzle for you, but I fig...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/08/writing-to-you-from-beautiful-and.html
So you may have noticed that nothing's been happening here. I really should have posted something sooner, but then I just didn't. Anyway, I've been busy lately with a lot of stuff that I'm really...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/07/so-you-may-have-noticed-that-nothings.html
A thousand apologies, but no puzzle this week. I'll try to get one up by the weekend, but no guarantees. Reasons include: surprise road trip to the twin cities over the weekend, crazy week at wor...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/06/slipping-and-sliding.html
I didn't quite finish the puzzle last night, so I'm posting this on my lunch break. I'll try to keep it brief. I was almost completely finished this puzzle a few days early this week, actually,...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/06/puff-puff-pass.html
Been a while since I've posted a vowelless, so here's a vowelless for you. For whatever reason, I'm in a mood to talk shop, so here's how this one was made: As you may know, I'm a fan of classi...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/05/here-there-be-giants.html
New puzzle day! ...however, I've decided to scale back operations a bit here. Beginning this week, I'll be posting puzzles fortnightly rather than weekly. Join the Google Group if you'd like to...
Well, I've had a full two weeks, and what do I have to show for it? Nothing. At least on the crossword front. Been very busy, in fact, with a number of other undertakings, large and small. Unfort...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/05/its-all-been-done.html
Busy times here at Cross Nerd HQ. Final exam on Monday for which I'm woefully under-prepared, a gig with a new band on Friday for which we're woefully under-prepared, and moving day on Wednesday ...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/04/testing-testing.html
...it's a darn good show, I've recently learned. Concluded binge-watching the 11-episode run while making the grid for this puzzle. Funny stuff and it starts to wade in some heavier and darker wa...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/04/watch-rick-and-morty.html
Finally got this puzzle done! Wrestled with this grid for a long time, and made some large-scale last-minute changes to the bottom half yesterday. Kind of got burnt out cluing this one and wasn't...
Sorry for the delay, folks. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm ok with having a bit of a flexible schedule here, but I still don't like to let things get too out of control. Seems that life k...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/04/youre-still-here.html
Post and puzzle will be up tomorrow evening. Sorry for the delay, grid got out of hand this week. See you then.
Should be sleeping right now, so just a puzzle and no write-up this week. More (many more) words, crossed and otherwise, next week. Update: I should have at least mentioned the origin of this...
Sorry about the skipped week there. I had a freestyle mostly finished, but didn't have quite enough time to devote to polishing it to my standards. The wonderful feedback I've received from y'all...
http://thecrossnerd.blogspot.com/2014/03/sorry-about-skipped-week-there.html