The Puzzle Pit

The Puzzle Pit – Archive

Every crossword puzzle I’ve ever posted — Metal Mondays, Themed Wednesdays, and Themeless Fridays — all in one place.

Metal Monday #26 – Themeless

Themeless Metal Monday — might be a bit lighter on the music references than past ones, but still a solid and challenging themeless to start the month of December🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #25 – “Now You See Me…”

Time for another themed Metal Monday; I had this theme revealer planned for awhile with grand plans for lots of theme depth, but had to scale it back a bit, and still think it’s a fun one!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare…

Metal Monday #24 – Themeless

I really like this grid shape — it allowed for some fun answers, and lots of opportunity to inject metal (and other genres) into the puzzle🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #23 – “Star Power”

Themed Metal Monday — tons of music references in this one, even beyond the theme; I hope it’s as fun to solve as it was to create!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #22 – Themeless

Themeless Metal Monday! Probably more accurately a “Music Monday” with lots of clues/answers across genres, including two nice 15-letter answers!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #21 – “Won’t you come and save me”

Some trickiness and lots of music references in this themed Metal Monday!🤘 I also hope you’ll all go check out my puzzle from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times! Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Themeless Friday #12

Before getting into the puzzle, I wanted to share exciting news — my first nationally-published crossword will be in the Los Angeles Times this Sunday, October 26th! Hope you check it out and enjoy! As for today, this is my…

Metal Monday #20 – Themeless

Oversized 16×15 themeless puzzle for this Metal Monday; lots of music references in here, enjoy!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #19 – “You can count on me!”

Time for a themed Metal Monday puzzle — maybe this is a bit of a stretch, but I’ll let you be the judge of that…🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #18 – Themeless

It was so great to go to the Midwest Crossword Tournament this weekend, and meet all the awesome folks there. Congrats to all the winners — looking forward to the next one! This is a themeless Metal Monday puzzle –…

Metal Monday #17

There’s a little bit of a twist to this themed Metal Monday puzzle…🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Themed Wednesday #10 – “Block Party”

I loved making this one (co-created with my brother), and felt we had something with potential for publication here, only to find out after submission to NYT (despite searching, clearly not well enough!) that they had run a similarly themed,…

Metal Monday #16

Back to a “regular” Metal Monday, after a Sunday puzzle and 2 minis. This is a themeless puzzle, with lots of music content (not just metal!); enjoy!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Mini Metal Monday

Trying something a little different here, with 2 mini 5×5 puzzles. I tried to make the majority of the clues/answers in these music-related, so while not the usual Monday puzzles, hoping this is fun as well!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare -…

Themeless Friday #11

I really had a good time building this puzzle — lots of long answers, including a phrase from my day job that I’ve been waiting to see in a crossword, and a bunch of music clues sneaking into a non-Metal…

Metal Monday (Sunday) #15 – “I literally love them!”

Lots of firsts here; first 21×21 Metal “Monday” puzzle, first post on a Sunday, and first puzzle with a title. I’m really excited with how this turned out, hope you enjoy it as much as I did!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare…

Themed Wednesday #9

This themed puzzle kind of plays a little like a themeless, with the grid shape and longer answers. I also feel like it’s a bit tougher than some of the prior themed ones I’ve made… Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

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