General
- earlier sections: many references to specific tips; below: some general how-tos;
later section: Authoring: Submission Guidelines - How to Be the Fastest Puzzler in Town (Shortz); 3/10/2002
- NYT: How to Solve the NYT Crossword Puzzle (Will Shortz); 4/8/2001
- NYT Style & Conventions; Trivia puzzle about NYT construction [JS; .pdf]
- HSW: Top 10 Tips for Solving Crossword Puzzles
- Word Buff: How to Solve Crossword Puzzles; about.com 10 Tips
- Crossword Phrase Dictionary: Tips; Solving Crossword Puzzles – Five Fast Tips
- Free Resources for Solving Crosswords; Puzzletome Crossword Tutorial
- How To Dominate the New York Times Crossword Puzzle
- How To Solve Crossword Puzzles (video)
- Books for Crossword Puzzle Solving
Themeless, Cryptics
- Diagramless Crosswords: A Tutorial
- BarelyBad: Diagramless Crossword Puzzles; tutorial
- Guardian: Beginner's guide to solving cryptic crosswords 5/3/2010; How to solve crosswords
- How to Solve 'The Times' Crossword 6/4/2001
- How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords; WSJ: Guide to Cryptic Crosswords [.pdf]
- Peter Biddlecombe: Yet Another Guide to Cryptic Crosswords
- Theresa's Solving Guide
- Christine Lovatt's Cryptic Tutorial (video)
- BestForPuzzles; crosswordacademy; Indigoextra
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- "I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords." ~Ken Jennings (on Jeopardy, quoting from The Simpsons)
- In Crosswords, It’s Man Over Machine, for Now 3/18/2012
- The Computer’s Next Conquest: Crosswords ("Dr. Fill" at ACPT 2012); 3/17/2012
- Fast Talk: How "Dr. Fill" Does For Crosswords What IBM's "Watson" Did On "Jeopardy!" 3/12/2012
- Why Computers Can't Make It as Stand-Up Comics 3/13/2011
- Artificial intelligence: All it lacks is common sense, says AI expert and author Nils Nilsson MailTribune; 2/22/2011
- What Is Artificial Intelligence? (Jeopardy & Watson); 2/6/2011
- Jeopardy, IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha 1/26/2011
- Crossword Clue Solver; CrosswordMaestro
- WebCrow; Quackle
- Solving Cryptic Crossword Clues by Computer
- American Assoc. of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Crossword Puzzles. Intro, Readings, Resources