PUZZLES BY TRIP PAYNE

Welcome to Triple Play Puzzles! Feel free to email me with any comments you might have about the puzzles, site contents, or anything else. — Trip

WHAT'S NEW
 

January 28, 2010

"What's Missing?", a new variety cryptic crossword (not a reprint!), has been added. Download the PDF.

Links to The Wall Street Journal's puzzles and Shawn Kennedy's new site, Puzzlement, have been added.

 

January 8, 2010

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December 27, 2009

"Introduction to Music", a new 14x15 themed crossword, has been added. Download the PDF or the AcrossLite file.

 

November 22, 2009

"Squeezeboxes #1", a crossword variation, has been added; see the explanation page for full instructions. Download the PDF of the harder version or the easier version (which has the same clues but also includes enumerations of the answers).

 

October 19, 2009

"Cryptic Crossword #10" has been added; download the PDF or the AcrossLite file.

 

September 22, 2009

"Themeless Challenger #6", a difficult 21x21, has been added; download the PDF or the AcrossLite file. (Trivia note: this puzzle ties the record for fewest black squares in a 21x21 puzzle, with just 51.)

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CHECK IT OUT! Trip contributes five puzzles a week to Yahoo!'s new "Daily Crossword with Hints", filled with current pop culture and other modern references.

JUST RELEASED! Cosmopolitans & Crosswords, published by Puzzlewright, contains 126 small-sized crosswords from previous collections by Trip. Buy it from Amazon or B&N.

RECENT RELEASE: Celebrity & Pop Culture Crosswords, with puzzles from Trip's Pop Culture Crosswords as well as Puzzability's Celebrity Crosswords. Buy it from Amazon or B&N.

Watch Trip and other top solvers compete at the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in the hit 2006 documentary Wordplay. Buy it from Amazon or B&N.

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