Welcome to XXXWordinfo.com - Crosswords for Grown-Ass Solvers.

As the URL implies, this site will unabashedly fail the Sunday Morning Breakfast Test.

Crossword puzzles here will embrace the idea that sexuality and profanity are a much more relatable part of our everyday lives than 1950s baseball coaches.

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They say that you never forget your first. I know I won’t.

My first collaborator was Norah Sharpe, and that creative process taught me a ton about puzzle construction and helped inspire me to create a site of my own.

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Make a (New) Hole

Today’s puzzle is all about making and using holes. If you’ve got experience with this concept, or even if you want to learn a thing or two, it might be a good fit for you!

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Hello fellow young person solvers. As a hip and very “with it” constructor myself I know the sort of contemporary content that cool modern people (like us) love to see in puzzles. In fact I regularly solve the New York Times digitally on my personal computer and therefore am very “plugged in” to all the new and exciting ways people just like you and I are using technology to communicate.

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Spicy L(a)unch

Did you know that the average Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world, is over 1.5 million Scovilles?!

In order to celebrate the publication of XXXWordInfo, I packed everyone something with some heat.

Introducing my first public mini, Spicy L(a)unch.

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