ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ TEENSPEAK] 
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]

PROGRAM: [Java]

PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ TEENSPEAK]

PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]

I finally got around to archiving the site by difficulty, and I’m pleased with the results. It was a task that I unfortunately tried to make harder than it actually was, as it typical with me and computer-related tasks. But nevertheless it’s up, and a click on your choice of difficulty will weed out only those types of puzzles (menu’s in the middle column below the store).

(Sidebar: I was surprised there are substantially more medium-level puzzles in the batch than any other. I’m assuming most of the vocal followers will say, “Brendan, hit me where it hurts and go with more difficult ones!” Well, I need to know these things, people! So please, more suggestions for what difficulty levels/types of puzzles you’re looking for in the comments section. I am here to entertain you. Give me words and phrases that need to appear in a crossword post-haste. Tell me you want me to make a puzzle about smoking banana peels. I will! I’m like the genie and this blog here’s the lamp. And you get three free puzzles a week!)

(Post-script to the sidebar: that Liz Gorski-esque puzzle-as-art thing is still coming. I haven’t forgotten about it. Thanks.)

So please, feel free to share the puzzles and the site with the uninitiated. If you’re printing out the puzzle, make ten extra copies and hand them out to your fellow friends/inmates/bridge parters/middle managers/etc. If you do it on-line, e-mail the link to ten friends. Tweet about it. Throw it up on Facebook or Digg. Announcement: I will reimburse 200% of the cost to anybody who gets a tattoo of one of my puzzle grids and/or my face and/or my name. And I’ll reimburse 300% of the cost if it’s a tramp stamp. Get the word out. There’s something here for puzzlers of every ilk. Seriously folks, the new motto for this blog is: Share The Puzzle. So: do it.

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