#Best crosswords app free#

Paolo is fairly well-known around crossword circles, having contributed puzzles to the American Values Club crossword, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets, while also serving as associate crossword editor for The Atlantic.Īnd Megan is an incredibly talented television and film writer who has written for Parks and Rec, The Simpsons, and The Good Place. The pair of someones in question are Megan Amram and Paolo Pasco. The concept of Easy and Hard clues is not unheard of… it’s just rare.Īnd it’s only natural that someone, eventually, was going to take this concept and dial it up to a Spinal Tap 11. The Boswords Spring and Fall Themeless Leagues work in a similar manner, offering three levels of clue difficulty - Smooth, Choppy, and Stormy - for competitors to choose from. The tournament final of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament offers different clue difficulties for three separate divisions. GAMES Magazine previously offered two sets of clues for their themeless crossword, entitled The World’s Most Ornery Crossword. Lollapuzzoola has two difficulty-levels for their final tournament puzzle, Local and Express. Having options for more than one set of clues is fairly rare.

#Best crosswords app free#

Our own Penny Dell Crosswords App offers free puzzles across three difficulty levels each day, but those are three distinct puzzles, not three different clue sets for one particular puzzle. New York Times crossword solvers are intimately familiar with this, talking about Tuesday puzzles and Saturday puzzles and understanding what each means in terms of expected puzzle difficulty. Part of the challenge for many crossword solvers is that you can’t adjust the difficulty of the cluing on a given day.