The Puzzle Pit – Archive

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

Metal Monday #68 – Themeless

I think it’s appropriate that Metal Monday #68 gets a 68-word themeless. Lots of really fun music clues in this one with a grid shape that kind of reminds me of a Tetris board…🤘 And here’s another shameless plug for…

Metal Monday #67 – “It’s All Relative…”

Fun news — I have a book! I self-published a sort of “best of” collection on Amazon; the link is here. If you’ve been with me from the start, you’ll recognize all the puzzles, but if not, it’s a great…

Metal Monday #66 – Themeless

Themeless Metal Monday here; I think this one is pretty smooth, and hopefully should all fall into place pretty nicely!🤘 EDIT: I had an incorrect clue originally on 39-Across, it’s all fixed now though! Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Themeless Friday #22

Another 68-word themeless puzzle. I’m continuing to try and get better with these lower word count themeless, and this is another one! Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #64 – Themeless

I was playing around with some grid shapes and landed on this one, which is pretty unique; I like the intersecting 15-letter entries here too!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #62 – Themeless

I just made a pretty big new music equipment purchase, and when I parsed out that something similar could be 15 letters long, my seed entry was born. I’m excited about this one, with lots of fun and weird music…

Metal Monday #61 – “The Complete Collection”

Themed Metal Monday, here, though I’d say it may be among the least “metal” of the series; there’s still lots of music-related content, and a theme revealer that I really like, so I’ll still allow it…🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #60 – Themeless

I really like this Themeless Metal Monday; lots of metal-leaning clues including a 15-letter entry down the middle, plus plenty of other music entries. Enjoy!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Themeless Friday #21

Two Fridays in a row with 68-word themeless puzzles. I really like a lot of the long entries I got in here, but again, these puzzles are hard to make! There’s a couple crummy spots, so just ignore those and…

Themeless Friday #20

I tried to build a wide open 68-word themeless, basically to see what I could come up with. I think there’s some good moments, and some not so good moments, but likely more good than bad! Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #58 – “On the road again”

Themed Metal Monday — I’ve had this revealer in mind for awhile, and finally was able to come up with the right entries for it. Mostly broad music stuff in here (though with a couple metal deep cuts as always);…

Metal Monday #57 – Themeless

Themeless Metal Monday today — 68 word themeless, with I think some pretty fun good fill (and maybe a few crappy entries as well…), but as always, lots of music stuff to solve!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

Metal Monday #56 – “Break a leg!”

So my son broke his finger last week (he’s doing OK all things considered!), and that inspired the theme for today’s puzzle. There’s some real obscurity in there today, but also a whole bunch of multi-genre music clues (27 out…

Metal Monday #55 – Themeless

For this themeless Metal Monday, I built the grid first, and then kind of just found entries to fit it; as always, lots of fun heavy music stuff, and I love one of the entries that is not metal in…

Themeless Friday #19 – “Sweet Home Chicago”

This is a themeless puzzle that I made as a submission for the open puzzle at the Midwest Crossword Tournament (I went last year, very fun!). The puzzle wasn’t chosen, as I’m sure competition was fierce, but I definitely still…

Metal Monday #54 – “Encore!”

Themed Metal Monday — after over a year of doing this (!!!), I sometimes have trouble finding very metal-specific themes, so sometimes we end up with one that’s very general music-leaning, like this one. Enjoy!🤘 Solve Online: Crosshare Downloads:

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