As someone who has designed hundreds of crossword puzzles and probably solved thousands of them, I have found several online sites which have free daily crosswords, and I wonder if anybody knows of any other sites where the crosswords are free. The Las Vegas Review Journal (reviewjournal.com), the Los Angeles Times (latimes.com), the Salt Lake City Tribune (sltrib.com) and Chicago Sun Times (suntimes.com) all have daily puzzles that you can access from their websites--the Tribune and Review Journal have the same puzzle every day. You have to sign up and then log in to get the crosswords from the Washington Post (washingtonpost.com), but the signup is free. The New York Times (nytimes.com) has one free puzzle every week--you can get the daily one by paying a subscription fee, although you might now also get access to the daily puzzle with a free signup. The Times of India (timesofindia.com) has an odd little puzzle which is often hard to solve because whoever designs it uses hinglish words and Indian place and celebrity names.

Anybody know of any other free online crosswords? Of the ones listed above, the ones in the Review Journal and Salt Lake Tribune are usually the best--not too easy, but they can be done in about ten minutes most days.

All these puzzles except, possibly, the Times of India one, are designed by computer programs nowadays. Takes less than five seconds. The clues, however, are still generally written by the designer.

Do a Google search on "crossword puzzles." There are scads (if not oodles) of free sites at every level of difficulty.