Generator Sites:

Eclipse - You'll have to download this fairly awesome piece of software, but its free and gives you lots of flexibility when creating your puzzles.

Finecrosser - You'll have to download this one too. It creates the so-called "swedish-style" crossword puzzles with clues right in the squares. Not exactly standard, but not bad for making crosswords.

Crossword Puzzle Games - Enter up to 20 words and hints into a list, click “create my crossword puzzle” and enjoy.

Dot Net This - A list of downloadable crossword puzzle/word puzzle generators.

General Crossword Sites:

Crossword Puzzle Help - Flocabulary's guide to the best online crossword puzzle help sites, including those where you type in the clue.

UK Puzzles - This modest site is bursting with information for your crossword cravings. Besides links to major newspapers’ puzzles and themed puzzles, this site offers crossword software, electronic solvers, tips, gifts, books, and even a small section on sudoku.

Best Crosswords - Interactive and engaging, bestcrosswords.com allows you to compete against other puzzle-hunters all over the globe; see how your skills match up. The site also offers on-line and printable puzzles on a variety of subjects.

Crosswords by Ray Hamel - Ray Hamel has won the World’s Largest Media Trivia contest 15 times and has served as the “Trivia Master” for the New York Times Trivia Quiz. His site is filled to the brim with daily, weekly, and monthly puzzles. Don’t speak English? Ray maintains a page with all sorts of foreign language puzzles. Want to read 120 news articles on puzzles? Ray’s got a page for that. Just got to get your hands on more than 50 puzzle books? Ray’s got a page for that too. And when you just can’t contain your euphoric love for puzzles one moment longer, hop onto one of seventeen puzzle blogs listed by Ray. Have fun exploiting all your deepest crossword desires.

The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Site - This site is a detailed composite of links that serves as your tickets to any sector of the crossword kingdom. Besides standard puzzle links to newspapers and games, this site connects you to blogs, well-known puzzle people, puzzle solvers, non-english puzzles, puzzles for kids, pay for play, sudoku, and other games.

Crosswordmysteries.com - If you’re looking to take your adoration of crossword puzzles beyond the newspaper, check out the crossword themed mystery novels offered by this site. Fun, intriguing titles like “Death on the Diagonal”, and “Another Word for Murder” with accompanying descriptions are listed. Under the pen name Nero Blanc, Steve Zettler and Cordelia Frances Biddle dished up a dozen books for you to enjoy. The site also includes and generous amount of free puzzles and links.

Site We Don't Like:

Teach-Nology - An annoying site of puzzle mayhem and pop up ads. You must be a member to create puzzles.

Ed Helper - This site used to offer a free easy to use crossword generator, but then they decided not to.