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Solve crossword puzzles with your friends, collaboratively: https://squares.io/

(Also great for solving solo.)

I built it because I wanted it to exist, and it's been fun to build. There's a small group of regular users, and I use it regularly myself. There's no monetization, though I have some thoughts about how that could happen in the future.

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That's really good. My only problem is I suck at crosswords. It would be cool if you had a beginner or easier section.

The Inkwell puzzles (https://squares.io/p/inkwell) are generally fairly easy (usually around NYT Tuesday level). If you need easier than that, you might have to search for puzzle archives. I remember the old yahoo/crosssynergy puzzles were quite easy.

Also, ask a friend to help! Two beginners can solve harder puzzles than either can individually, since you get the union of your trivia knowledge and also two brains thinking of different sorts of wordplay or cluing angles.

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