Climbing Crosswords!

My friends and I are on zoom looking for climbing crosswords because we can't see each other due to COVID19. Please. Send. Help. 

If you are familiar with the Gunks, I have one from about 20 years ago. A few of the clues are outdated and/or refer to Gunkies who were active online (Gunks.com...WAY before MtnProj) at that time and so were known to the crowd I sent the puzzle to.

I posted this a few years ago...Good luck!

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2001/10/puzzler.htm

This puzzle was published in the Atlantic Monthly in October 2001. Emily Cox, one of the creators, is a climber. I was very impressed with the way she worked climbing terms and concepts into the clues. Keep in mind that while the clues are thematically related to climbing, the answers do not have to be climbing-related.

Cryptic puzzles like this will seem weird and/or incomprehensible to many. There is a link to "a complete introduction to clue-solving" on the top of the second page for the perplexed.

Thank you so much! I had no idea Emily Cox is a climber! Been a big fan of her puzzles with Rathvon for many years. The day the Atlantic stopped carrying the Puzzler was a very sad one for me. I do their acrostic every two weeks in the NYT-- does anyone know if they still make cryptics and publish them somewhere? Would gladly subscribe.

SethG wrote: Thank you so much! I had no idea Emily Cox is a climber! Been a big fan of her puzzles with Rathvon for many years. The day the Atlantic stopped carrying the Puzzler was a very sad one for me. I do their acrostic every two weeks in the NYT-- does anyone know if they still make cryptics and publish them somewhere? Would gladly subscribe.

They do a weekend puzzle for the WSJ that carries on the Atlantic Puzzler. A compilation of the WSJ puzzles drops on April 7, according to Amazon.

There is a cryptic in each issue of the Nation with past puzzles available online. Start with thenation.com/article/archi… and increment/decrement the "3200". That will get you a few hundred cryptics to keep you busy.

Harper's runs a puzzle similar to the Atlantic, but I think they are behind a paywall.

PRRose wrote:

They do a weekend puzzle for the WSJ that carries on the Atlantic Puzzler. A compilation of the WSJ puzzles drops on April 7, according to Amazon.

1997-2009 Atlantic Puzzlers are archived at https://www.chall.us/hex/hex_puzzles.html

There is a cryptic in each issue of the Nation with past puzzles available online. Start with thenation.com/article/archi… and increment/decrement the "3200". That will get you a few hundred cryptics to keep you busy.

Harper's runs a puzzle similar to the Atlantic, but I think they are behind a paywall.

Yes I spent a long time exploring the Atlantic archive and I subscribe to Harpers for the puzzle. I don’t like the Nation puzzles quite as much but I do them sometimes. 

Dana Bartlett wrote:

I always do the Friday and Saturday NYT puzzles. Haven't looked at the Sunday Times for a long time, but I love the acrostic; is it there in the Sunday edition, every 2 weeks, reliably?  

Yes in the Magazine on Sunday the acrostic appears every two weeks, and it is always constructed by Emily Cox (the climber!) and Henry Rathvon. On alternate weeks the variety puzzle is something other than an acrostic, it could be a cryptic, or marching bands, or diagramless, or puns & anagrams, or split decisions, or something else.