TESTIMONIALS

Your program is easily the best thing that has ever happened for crossword constructors.

- Nancy Salomon

..it's brilliant. As a teacher I use it at least a couple of times a week and the kids I teach love the crosswords.

- Shaun Donnelly

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Information

-Vocabulary puzzles

-Newspaper puzzles

-Other puzzle styles

-Web publishing

-User support/updates

-About us

Extras

-Dictionary/thesaurus

-Professional Grid Filler

-Additional word lists

Other sites

-Crossword Puzzles

-WordWeb Pro

What's New since version 6

Version 7 added full support for Sudoku puzzles, including automatic generation at a specified difficulty level.

There are many other new features, including grid style checking, new square formatting options, improved multi-list AutoFind search and more.

View numbers in the grid and preview AutoFind

Make multiple vocabulary puzzles and change size

You can now press the Size button during the fill to increase the size to fit more words in or decrease the size to make a more compact grid. Generate multiple vocabulary puzzles and press the arrow buttons to browse the fills and choose the best one. Press the Next button to force it to generate a new fill from scratch.

Other features

• AutoFind only shows word lists which have matches
• Find Word has new Check All option to check all the word lists
• New Square Properties: background circle, custom number text, top-right corner text, formats in puzzle, no across/down clue
• Style Checking - during grid design, color squares in the grid that are inconsistent with American or Cryptic/quick styles
• Pro Grid Filler option to view most complete failed fill
• Grid menu coded puzzle option to set code grid hint letters (visible in code grid)
• Can change font size in Clue Square editor
• Grid Properties option to set number color
• Change word scores in Pro Grid Filler's Manual Word Selection window
• New theme fill option for "Maximum" theme
• Create Vocabulary Puzzle: new option to extract clues from a complete puzzle and remake it
• Added Canadian and Australasian English options
• AutoFind now shows selected word in the grid
• Hint URLs for clues in the applet
• Option to clue one letter words
• Numerous other enhancements

New features since Crossword Compiler 6.x

• Generate and view multiple vocabulary puzzles.
• Pro Filler: Manual word selection now shows selected and forced words in the grid; new option to show partially-forced intersecting word choices
• Word list features now preserve punctuation and capitalization. The Word List Manager has new features to handle word formatting and case. Old word lists can still be used.
• New option to use clues from a clue database - inserts clues automatically
• Clue databases are now stored in a generic "CSV" (comma separated values) format. This makes it much easier to import and export to other programs, and the files can be opened in Excel, etc. for editing if desired. Old databases can be converted easily.
• Export printable web pages with the puzzle and clues in columns. Support for right-aligned numbers.
• Include timer in Java applet.
• Applet enhancements: color wrong letters, save and restore solving time, improved support for input of extended characters, support for relative file locations
• Clue editor improved to allow selection of clue database and to change the database lookup word
• Enhanced clue database manager, with easy database selection
• Improved support for multi-user installations.
• Change and format the solution word for each clue. Export answers with correct capitalization. If you are using a formatted word list the formatting is all automatic.
• New Find Word window - improved support for large numbers of word lists
• AutoFind, Find Word and Anagram windows re-sizable. Size and position is saved.
• Multi-charset support improved, support for XP themes
• Define equivalent letters for a word list (Word List Manager) - intersect letters with different accents, etc.
• Include multiple letters in a square for printout/export
• Duplicate/filter word lists using a search pattern

To buy version 8 please see the ordering page. If you have an earlier version you can upgrade.