Free Newspaper Crosswords

Thanks friends

This one is about you.

It's an early-summer break in global extremes -- zero degrees four and a half months ago here, 100 this afternoon -- to speak of the people you meet around horse racing, the young and the puzzled, the old and the overdue, rank beginners and the exasperated alike.

Some believe that the Internet could be the anti-Christ, evil made easy in all its infamy, a mostly anonymous world full of liars and cheaters and fakes, crooked gamblers and predators as near as the touch of a key, little people with big phony names doing their best in life in a corner of a room as somebody else.

The Internet is perfect for nailing crossword puzzles, hustling through homework, and looking up illnesses.

Anonymity is where anger goes to roost.

But that's not so much the case here.

Horse players have always had nicknames, from "Nicely-Nicely" and "Nathan Detroit" to the "Landscaper," who I sat with at some simulcast races last week, so named because of all the green, and the fertilizing agent, that he spread around town. I have found that there are no better people roaming the Internet than horse players, a good-spirited group interested mainly in touching base with a stranger for sharing rousing victories and tragic heartbreak, neither of which you might want to discuss at the dinner table.

Real people don't get to nickname themselves.

The Landscaper could be the only one who might not know his nickname.

Horse players have great memories and can tell a story, making all race results sound like they happened two hours ago, not years.

The Internet contact that a writer has at this site is strikingly different than what occurs at a newspaper, where I do a general interest column and occasionally read anonymous comments like the one that expressed pleasure about a family that died in a private airplane crash, the ghost commentator having alleged that the pilot was an unpleasant sort.

The Internet confused newspapers from the outset. It was obvious that newspapers had to be there, had to be on line. So they gave their product away, that's right, said come and get it, here's your electronic edition of the daily news, free of charge, the thought being, advertising would cover the tab. Then people quit advertising so much. And somehow the Internet editions were overwhelmed by lunatics from Timbuktu and Chicken Feathers, Ark.

Printable Crossword Puzzles for Free

Printable Crossword Puzzles for Free

I’m a crossword puzzle addict. I got the bug when I was in my early teens, and like lots of other crossword junkies, I came by my addiction honestly. My parents are New York Times subscribers, almost exclusively for the crossword puzzle. They like to relax before and after work by working that famous puzzle together, and as I grew up I became as familiar with the NYT puzzle as most kids my age were with video games. The first time I completed a Saturday puzzle, I woke my parents up from a nap just to gloat.

Whatever your entry into the world of crossword puzzles, finding free printable puzzles online will keep you in puzzles any day of the week, anywhere you go. Having access to free crossword puzzles you can print from anywhere you have an Internet connection means plenty of puzzles for long plane rides, road trips, or boring waits at the doctor’s office.

Here are my favorite printable crossword puzzles for free:

MirrorEyes.com

MirrorEyes has been posting free printable crossword puzzles since the year 2000. They have a daily crossword puzzle, as well as a daily word search, that you can print for free anytime you want. They also maintain a huge backlog of puzzles going back to the site’s beginning. With nearly twelve years of daily crossword puzzles to mine, you could use MirrorEyes’ collection exclusively and not run out for some time.

PuzzleChoice

What I like most about the free printable crosswords at PuzzleChoice is the variety. The archive may not be quite as big as some other crossword collections online, but the puzzles are categorized and offer easy links to puzzle solutions beneath the puzzle. Choose from categories like “octo-puzzle,” “standard US,” and “wordwheels.”

OnlineCrosswords

With seven different daily crosswords for different skill levels, if you just want a daily printable crossword puzzle you could do much worse than Online Crosswords. The site also maintains an archive of daily newspaper crossword puzzle solutions, from papers like the New York Times, LA Times, and Washington Post. A useful archive for newspaper crossword fans.

ABCTeach

If you’re looking for simpler puzzles for children and young teens, the free printable crossword puzzle collection at ABCTeach is a great place to start. Specific vocabulary puzzles and crosswords aimed at children of different grade levels makes ABCTeach’s crossword collection ideal for teachers or parents looking to cure the dreaded “I’m bored!” of the summer months.

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