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Have a Custom Crossword created about Great Aunt Myrt's Life or a Product Information WordSearch puzzle for your next marketing campaign..

Use it as a Contest to measure results! Founded September 15, 1991 in Placerville, California

02/21/2026

Word of the Day ~ laconic

[luh-KON-ik]

adjective ~ expressing much in few words; concise

"Creating a crossword puzzle requires many clues to be laconic since they're not complete sentences."

02/10/2026

Word of the Day ~ disheveled

[dih-SHEV-uhld]

adjective ~ in disorder; unkempt; untidy; disarranged

"Many days I awaken in a disheveled state and am very thankful I only have to become presentable from the
shoulders up for my at-home Zoom meetings!"

01/07/2026

Word of the Day ~ eminently

[EM-uh-nunt-lee]

adverb ~ very; to a high degree

"A compliment I received from this crossword for my upcoming puzzle book said that it was challenging, yet eminently entertaining."

01/05/2026

Word of the Day ~ conversant

[kun-VER-sunt]

adjective ~ someone who has knowledge of or experience with something

"When a non-profit uses a word puzzle to reinforce their values at an event, it gives staff and board members a chance to be conversant with the public."

12/31/2025

Word of the Day ~ retrospective

[reh-truh-SPEK-tiv]

adjective ~ something that relates to the past or to something that happened in the past

"My retrospective sense of time hinges on my memory, which still seems like yesterday that I wrote my first of thousands of crossword puzzles."

10/21/2025

Word of the Day ~ incunabula

[in-kyoo-NAB-yuh-luh]

noun ~ books produced before 1501, in the early days of printing

"Many libraries have a valuable collection of incunabula, books made prior to 1501.. 412 years before the first crossword puzzle was created!"

10/07/2025

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month I'm giving away this Custom WordSearch puzzle which I wrote for my 80-ish year old friend, Larry, because according to him, it's his "favorite subject!"

Ladies, keep up with your check-ups!

10/06/2025

Word of the Day ~ cacography

[kuh-KOG-ruh-fee]

noun ~ bad handwriting; poor penmanship

"Over the years I've had to decipher the cacography of some clients, which creates a puzzle for ME to work out before I can write one!"

09/15/2025

Word of the Day ~ askance

[uh-SKANSS]

adverb ~ with a side-eye glance, in a way that shows lack of trust

"People tend to look askance at me when I tell them I'm a custom cruciverbalist until they learn it means writing crossword puzzles."

08/25/2025

Word of the Day ~ splendiferous

[splen-DIF-er-uhs]

adjective ~ splendid; magnificent

"The sunset, especially with the cloud cover, creates a splendiferous vision in the sky"

08/11/2025

Word of the Day ~ jubilate

[JOO-buh-leyt]

verb ~ to show or feel great joy

"It makes me jubilate when I get positive feedback on a crossword puzzle, like last month's What's In a Name, which I wrote using all bands with animals in their name."

07/28/2025

Word of the Day ~ piquancy

[PEE-kuhn-see]

noun ~ the quality of being stimulating and exciting

"Gail Marie's puzzles, whether crosswords or the word search type, have a certain piquancy that keeps people engaged."

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Gail Beckman is an avid designer and aficionado of crossword and wordsearch puzzles. She is a Custom Curciverbalist.

She Puts Words to Work in a Puzzling Profession. It's said that everyone's born with a talent. Some of us are born carpenters; others are born dancers. Gail Marie is a born cruciverbalist.

A cruciverbalist, (kroo-suh-vur-buh-list), is a designer or aficionado of crossword puzzles. Gail Marie is both.

She wrote her first crossword in 1990 as a training tool for cable TV. It bothered her that co-workers would spell cable: C-A-B-E-L, so she developed a puzzle comprised of cable television terminology that couldn't be completed unless you spelled everything correctly. After writing three training crosswords for the company, then getting requests for personalized puzzles, she broke away and started Custom Crosswords.

This website, customcrosswords.com, was put together in 1991, before dot-com's were taken seriously, and she has been writing customized crossword and word search puzzles ever since -- still using graph paper and pencil! They are constructed from a list of words all about the individuals, couples, families, businesses, organizations, or corporations. A couple of past technical crosswords include one written for the State of California to train firemen on hazardous materials, and another on gastro-intestinal diseases written for Johns Hopkins website. A few of Gail's favorite crosswords are: A Diamond is a Fan's Best Friend, (baseball terms), A Frog's Life, and What Are You Afraid Of? (different phobias).

She brought her business to Las Vegas in 2003, wanting to target the trade show industry with contest crosswords, as well as continue her In-Person Advertising campaign to a larger market than Northern California. In 2010, she began performing stand-up comedy after trying to get a friend involved, but says she is by no means a professional, having been on stage only a dozen times -- unless you count beer as payment.

Today Gail Marie enjoys combining fun and games with humor in her presentations, and likes to share what it was like growing up as a "word nerd."