Rates
The 24-Hour Clues Cycle
News never stops. Neither do our puzzles — so the puzzle page is the one blank you never have to fill.
One weekly price for a print puzzle page. Online priced per product. No contract to see the numbers, because you shouldn’t have to ask.
01 / Print
One page a week, one price.
A complete puzzle page, built for your publication. This is the rate for a weekly paper — one page, once a week.
$69a week
($300 a month)
Publishing more often than weekly? Tell us how often and what space you have, and we will quote for it.
Worth noticing: a whole page in print costs less than a single crossword online — $69 against $72. Print is the cheaper track deliberately, because print is where the pressure is.
- Built to your space
- Every page is laid out for the room you actually have.
- Variations for the weeks an ad lands
- Page space moves with ad sales. You get versions to match, so nobody is reflowing a crossword at six in the evening.
- Choose the content mix
- Crosswords, sudoku, word searches, horoscopes. Not a fixed bundle.
- Solutions in the same drop
- Same page or separate, whichever suits your layout.
02 / Online
Priced per product, delivered as XML.
Take one, or take the lot. The weekly figure is the price; the monthly is that across a 52-week year, which is why it lands on odd cents.
- Mini Crossword Connection5×5 · Monday to FridayThemed across the set, revealed on Friday
- $49a week($212.34 a month)
- The Canadian Crossword15×15 · any weekdayTake one day, or up to all five · from November 2026
- $60a week, per day($260.00 a month)
- The Canadian Crossword — Saturday15×15 · SaturdayRotating roster of Canadian constructors
- $68a week($294.67 a month)
- BIG Canadian Crossword21×21 · SundayThe flagship, with room for a weekend solve
- $72a week($312.00 a month)
- The Canadian Crossword, every day15×15 · Monday to SaturdayAll five weekdays and the Saturday
- $368a week($1,595 a month)
The weekday price is per day, so a paper running Tuesdays and Thursdays pays for two — $120 a week. The last row is the whole series, not a fifth product.
03 / If those numbers don’t work
Then tell us what does.
We work with small community papers and non-profits to find the price that fits their budget. The rates above are where we start, not where we insist. Circulation and distribution both move them.
04 / What arrives, and when
Ready to run, in the week it runs.
- Formats
- Print-ready PDF. XML for digital. Other formats can be reviewed and quoted.
- Currency and tax
- All prices are in Canadian dollars and exclude applicable taxes.
- These rates, from when
- They apply to proposals made from 17 September 2026. Existing agreements continue on the terms they were signed on.
- What these rates cover
- Content licensing and delivery. A hosted player, publisher platform or analytics product is quoted separately.
- Rights and licence
- The rights attached — where you may publish, for how long, and in what territory — are set out in your agreement. That is the document that governs.
- How it reaches you
- By email, or pushed straight into your FTP if you grant us access.
- Assigned for the week it runs
- Each puzzle is assigned and delivered for a specific publication week.
- Planned non-publishing weeks
- Tell us your holiday weeks when we agree your schedule and we will work them into it.
- Back issues are a separate licence
- A subscription covers what we send you from the day you start. Building an archive of puzzles from before that — to put years of back issues online, say — is an archival licence, quoted separately. Worth asking about before you plan it rather than after.
05 / Get in touch
Tell us what you publish and how often.
For print, include the space available. For digital, tell us where the puzzles will run. If you are moving from another supplier, tell us what you pay.