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The Criss Cross Bundle

£12.99

Clever, satisfying criss cross puzzles for logic-loving solvers.
Includes 3 titles.

Clever, satisfying criss cross puzzles for logic-loving solvers.
Includes 3 titles.

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New issues, cover reveals, puzzle moments, family updates and behind-the-scenes life at PWA.

Important puzzle question.

Are you a pen person or a pencil person?

Pen people: bold, committed, possibly terrifying.

Pencil people: careful, elegant, emotionally prepared.

People who use whatever is nearest: living fully on the edge.

Tell us be

Choosing a puzzle magazine is a deeply personal matter.

Some days you want a peaceful wordsearch and a quiet corner.

Some days you want something a little more special — a bit more curated, a bit more polished, a bit more “this is my ti

Made in Whitstable. Enjoyed everywhere.

Which sounds beautifully neat, but really means this:

Our puzzles are made by the sea, with big skies overhead, the kettle on heroic duty, and someone quietly moving one word three squares to the left because

A tiny puzzle for your tea break. Find the hidden word before the kettle clicks.
It’s hiding in the grid somewhere…
Comment FOUND IT when you spot it 👀☕

Behind every PWA puzzle is a family, a lot of grids, and at least one person saying, “Surely we’ve used ‘otter’ too many times now?”

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Since 1976, PWA has made puzzles for real life.

For train journeys.
For tea breaks.
For holidays.
For hospital waiting rooms.
For quiet evenings.
For kitchen tables.
For children with felt-tips.
For grandparents with excellent pens.

For anyone who

A puzzle asks very little of you.

No charger.
No login.
No password.
No app update.
No one shouting breaking news into your nervous system.

Just a page, a pen, and a few quiet minutes where your brain gets to do one lovely thing at a time.

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Hello from PWA.

We’re a family-run puzzle publishing house from Whitstable, making wordsearches, crisscrosses and puzzle magazines since 1976.

For nearly 50 years, our puzzles have been tucked into handbags, packed for holidays, opened on tra

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Happy Puzzling

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