Category: Free Association Puzzles

My wife got a new-to-her car last week and we have joined the electric vehicle club. That of course had to inspire a couple of clues in this puzzle. Will Nediger did an interesting thing in one of his recent puzzles. He used random number generation to create the...

I’m not exactly an Olympics fiend, but I sure do enjoy the chance once every four years to take in some archery, badminton, and trampoline competition. If you aren’t checking out those sports during your Olympics viewing time, I can’t recommend them enough. If you’re the sort of person...

In between multiple calls from Jan at the ‘Dealer Service Center’ about my vehicle’s warranty, I managed to construct you another puzzle. That Jan. She’s persistent. I’ll give her that. She really really wants me to press ‘1’ to be connected with an agent. None of this has anything...

Welcome back everyone! Summer is upon us and I’m afraid I might be a little bit slower on the posting for a few weeks. Good things are happening on the puzzle publication front, with two Spyscape crosswords, two Universals, and a New York Times all in the queue and...

I’ve seen some other constructors playing around with asymmetrical grids, like this great one by Will Nediger. I’m not quite ready to get that wild and crazy. But after last week’s diagonal Free Association, I decided to continue my maverick ways by offering up a mirror symmetry Free Association...

Diagonal symmetry today for no good reason beyond shaking things up. I’m wild like that. Enjoy the puzzle and the rest of your weekend! Across Lite (.puz) PDF...

Happy Monday crossword fam! I know it’s only been three days, but ya’ll know I don’t keep any particular schedule. This is a slightly-harder-than-average-for-me Free Association puzzle and I hope you enjoy it. Speaking of difficulty, I learned something this week that you may already know. Paolo Pasco reached...

Happy Friday everyone! After you do the puzzle and figure out what this picture is all about, I suggest you check out its source if you’re not familiar with it already. You won’t be sorry. Thanks to Matt Gritzmacher and Norah Sharpe for the test solve on this one....

I snapped a portrait of this little guy on my front steps a couple of days ago. He and his billions of cicada compadres are putting on quite the concert here in Maryland. Oof. With my new little friends providing my constructing soundtrack, I’ve made a puzzle that’s a...

It’s been almost two weeks since you last heard from me. During most of the pandemic, I haven’t submitted puzzles to publishers. I’ve submitted a few lately, and that has crowded out Grid Therapy a bit more than I’d like. You’ll be seeing collaborations I did with Beth Rubin...