Puzzle Basics: 
Weekday puzzles are usually 15 square and occasionaly 17 square in size.  Weekend puzzles are usually 21 square in size.  For english words, you'll find a mix of American, Canadian and British spellings;  although I do my best to let the clues reflect the required spelling.

For you competitive solvers, each puzzle has a timer that starts when you click on the grid to start solving the puzzle. When you’re finished, you can click “submit” to log your completion time. I’ll let you know how you did compared to other solvers.  And yes, it's possible to cheat by clicking on the "reveal", “check” or “solution” buttons - but that wouldn’t be fair now, would it?

Print a Puzzle:  Prefer to solve a puzzle the old fashioned way?  Look in the lower right hand corner of the puzzle page for a link to open a PDF of the puzzle.  You may have to scroll down to see it, depending on the size of your monitor.

Solutions: If you have completed a puzzle with pencil and paper and just want to see the correct solution, go to the puzzle page and click the “solution” button.