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WILD OLIVE and DEVILWOOD share a letter bank

big themeless on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/10/puzz...

the past tense of "shoot hoops" should be "shot hops"

new themed puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/09/puzz...

another big themeless on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/08/puzz...

new freestyle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/07/puzz...

new themed puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/07/puzz...

new themed puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/06/puzz...

new indie puzzle highlights, feat. Kelsey Dixon and Byron Walden: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/06/indi...

the odd letters of "boom or bust" spell out a synonym for "bust"

another big chunky themeless: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/06/puzz...

you always hear "seamstress," and almost never "seamster." but on the flip side, you always hear "sea monster," and almost never "sea monstress"

new themed puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/05/puzz...

the difference between dogs and cats is nicely encapsulated by the difference between "herding dogs" and "herding cats"

today’s puzzle is by @bewilderingly.bsky.social. it is full of delight and packs a lot into this (8x5) box! solve at the link in bio 🌺

new indie puzzle highlights, feat. @adanicklmao.bsky.social, August Miller, Quiara Vasquez, JonMichael Rasmus, Sean Weitner, and @juffowup.bsky.social: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/04/indi...

big themeless that I also put up on the puzzle table at ACPT: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/04/puzz...

the upcoming Faces of Death film stars Barbie Ferreira as a character named Margot, three years after Margot Robbie starred as a character named Barbie

Show with lots of cool technology and sex? Poob has it for you (4)

everything shower? you mean the aleph from borges' the aleph?

your nickname is what your name would be if you were named Nick. mine's Nick

the theory of misovirism (literally "man-hating") was developed by the Cameroonian writer Werewere Liking (literally "man man liking")

Edebiri's heritage, partly! (5)

I made a crossword

the word "fluffernutter" is a combination of two people who work together on a porn set

here's a puzzle I wrote in 2023 and then forgot about: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/03/puzz...

a huge part of why i agreed to make a puzzmo mini crossword every day for a month is that crossword puzzles seem to be one of the actual battlefields for getting my peer group to stop giving money to the NYT

it would not be a violation of boundaries to solve this puzzle and tell me nice things about it: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/02/puzz...

big themeless: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/02/puzz...

new indie puzzle highlights, feat. Ben Tolkin, @xws.bsky.social, @juffowup.bsky.social, @rebecculous.bsky.social, and Kelsey Dixon: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/02/indi...

Episode 7 of Crosstalk with @bewilderingly.bsky.social is out now! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6x9j... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Joanna Newsom in the party shuffle to prove to my guests I'm not using Spotify

themed puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/01/puzz...

big puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/01/puzz...

hamnet? is that like a web slung by spider-ham?

the word "assassinates" starts with two asses and ends with the fancy Latin word for the ass

George Thorogood's most famous song is about being thoroughly bad

big puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2025/12/puzz...

new indie puzzle highlights, feat. Ryan Mathiason, @xws.bsky.social, and @orta.io: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2025/11/indi...

Julio and Enrique Iglesias should stylize their names like JVLIO and ENRIQVE and start a Spanish-language CHVRCHES cover band

another chunky themeless on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2025/11/puzz...

there are drinks called perry and perrier, whoever invents a drink called perriest is gonna be rich

new indie puzzle highlights, feat. @xws.bsky.social and a double dose of @benzimmer.bsky.social: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2025/10/indi...

it's ironic that the musicians on the Titanic didn't try to flee, given that they were a band on ship

the masculine equivalent of "blonde ale" is "blond al"

themed puz on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2025/10/puzz...

new indie puzzle highlights, feat. @frisco17.bsky.social and Liam Hughes: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2025/10/indi...

For the next 30 days, we're running a series of free mini crosswords created by our puzzle editor @xws.bsky.social to help you become a better crossword solver. Solve the first puzzle here, and check the replies every day for the next one! 👯 Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

the apostrophe in bat'leth replaces the letter t, because a klingon battleth with it