Puzzles and diversions to exercise your brain

puzzles and crosswords

Fraser Simpson

Special to The Globe and Mail

Published May 15, 2020Updated May 21, 2020

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Test your mental mettle with this brain-twisting assortment of word, logic and number puzzles by Fraser Simpson, creator of The Globe and Mail’s cryptic crossword.

Just print off the PDFs below. Or pick up the Saturday May 16 Globe for the printed version. Enjoy!

Download all the puzzles as a PDF (this PDF also includes an upside-down set of solutions for the puzzles other than the crossword)
Download the solutions to the giant crossword as a PDF
Can’t print it out right now? Email it to yourself

Interested in sharing your progress? Use #GlobeCrossword on Twitter and Instagram

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