Want a fresh challenge every day?
Answer the clue questions.
Fill in the words of the quote grid.
Work back and forth until the grid is complete.
The answer is a brief joke, and the initial letters of the clue answers spell out the name of the comic!
Come back every day for a laugh!
Our Story
From 2011-2012, John L. Weil wrote the Solve and Smile Acrostic puzzles, published daily in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
John had a new approach to the acrostic puzzle; his puzzles produced a one- or two-line joke, about half the traditional length of an Acrostic puzzle, with the initials of the clue answers revealing the name of the comic who told the joke – a shorter puzzle, easier to solve, shorter path to the laugh.
This puzzle cultivated a following during the year and a half it was published, but then one day, The Plain Dealer pulled their space, never publishing another Solve and Smile. John tried to find other outlets for his puzzle, but he found none, and eventually abandoned the project.
John passed away last May, after a difficult fight with cancer. With the partnership of his widow, I have been working since then to revive the puzzle online.
For an all-too brief period, this puzzle brought a growing daily audience a lot of joy, and we want to continue that tradition now.
This site is dedicated to John’s memory.
