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What are the best free crossword puzzles?

A commercial recommendation prompt. We size how many people ask ChatGPT this from real search demand, then run it through ChatGPT to see which websites it recommends.

Est. people asking / mo
31K
CPC
$0.05
Total est. value / mo
$95
Common ways people ask this (10)
  • Where can I find free crossword puzzles online?
  • Where can I find free crossword puzzles for beginners?
  • Where can I find free crossword puzzles for kids?
  • Where can I find free crossword puzzles for adults?
  • Where can I find free daily crossword puzzles?
  • Where can I find free printable crossword puzzles?
  • Where can I find free Sunday crossword puzzles?
  • Where can I find free hard crossword puzzles?
  • Where can I find free easy crossword puzzles?
  • Where can I find free themed crossword puzzles?

What ChatGPT actually answered

The 5 times we asked ChatGPT this, each answer verbatim. The leaderboard below aggregates all 5 runs.

You: What are the best free crossword puzzles?
ChatGPT:
  1. nytimes.com
  2. washingtonpost.com
  3. latimes.com
  4. vox.com
  5. theguardian.com
  6. aarp.org
  7. boatloadpuzzles.com
  8. crosswordsolver.com
  9. elpais.com
  10. usatoday.com
  11. puzzles.about.com
  12. dailycrosswordsolver.com
  13. crosswordnexus.com
  14. crosswordlabs.com
  15. bestcrosswords.com
  16. arkadium.com
  17. merriam-webster.com
  18. simplycrossword.com
  19. sfgate.com

Websites ChatGPT recommends for this prompt

Aggregated across 5 runs (min 2/5 appearances). Estimated visits split the prompt's demand by rank. Sites matching the prompt's own brand are marked branded and excluded from the leaderboard.

Arrows show each site's rank change since Jul 2026.

RankWebsiteEst. visits / mo
1 nytimes.com 615
2 ▲2 washingtonpost.com 369
3 aarp.org 246
4 ▲4 latimes.com 169
5 ▲2 theguardian.com 123
6 boatloadpuzzles.com 92
7 ▼5 crosswordsolver.com 68
8 ▼3 thecrosswordsolver.com 52
9 new usatoday.com 40
10 ▲5 crosswordnexus.com 31
11 new vox.com 25
12 ▼3 bestcrosswords.com 18
13 ▲4 dictionary.com 15
14 ▲6 sfgate.com 12
15 ▼3 crosswordlabs.com 9
16 new simplycrossword.com 8
17 new puzzlemadness.co.uk 6
18 new merriam-webster.com 5
How is this estimated?

ChatGPT doesn't publish prompts, so we don't show logged conversations. We measure real demand for this topic from Google search volume, scale it to ChatGPT's user base (on average about 1 ChatGPT user for every 8 Google searchers, a ratio that varies by topic), and run the prompt through ChatGPT 5 times to record which websites it recommends and in what order. Estimated visits split that demand across the recommended sites by a click-through-by-rank curve. Every number is a modeled estimate, not measured analytics. Full methodology →