Winners & Prizes
PRIZES
All winners will receive the following:
- Priceless bragging rights.
- A copy of Merl Reagle’s Sunday Crosswords.
- Personalized and redesigned Winner’s Certificates, suitable for framing.
- NEW – All Second & Third Place finishers will also receive Personalized Certificates, suitable for framing.
- The unique, highly coveted, more durable and even more tastefully designed, Finger Lakes Crossword Champ Bracelet.
- Winners’ names will be inscribed on a brass winners’ plaque permanently on display in the Tompkins Learning Partners office.
- All players who complete a Perfect Puzzle within the competition time period will receive a Perfect Puzzle Certificate, suitable for framing.
2025 WINNERS
Easier – Team: Crossed But Still Wording 16:08
Easier – Individual: Alli Ross 5:52
Trickier – Team: The Nepotists 10:35
Trickier – Individual: Charlie Green 9:58
Toughest – Team: Smug Capybaras 16:30
Toughest – Individual: Jacob Lehman 6:56
2025 PERFECT PUZZLES
Easier – Team:
Crossed But Still Wording
Ordo Aenigma
Team Boomizoomi
Easier – Individual:
Jeffrey Faraday
Ian Hester
Sarah Hogben
Mel Ricci
Alli Ross
Mike Titlebaum
Megan Vo
Trickier – Team:
Fantastic Four
Four Across
Kat & Tess
The Nepotists
Trickier – Individual:
Laura Batten
Ted Boscia
Catherine Gale
Charlie Green
Howard Leib
Annette Otis
Marty Waters
Toughest – Team:
Best of the Wordz
The Doves
Hovey Hitters
Never Look a Grid Horse in the Mouth
The Read Letters
Smug Capybaras
The Sweet Potatoes
Toughest – Individual:
Meghan Caffrey
Jaime Garza
Roger Gilbert
Jacob Helhoski
Jacob Lehman
John Mazzello
David Mimno
Amy Nelson
Veronica Pillar
Devika Pokhriyal
