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

Printable PDF guide

• Getting Started - making an American-style newspaper puzzle

Video tutorials

The online video tutorials go through the process of making a puzzle and demonstrating various options. The Flash videos may take a minute or so to load.

• Making a vocabulary puzzle
  11 minutes, with speech. Shows how to make a freeform puzzle using your own words, write clues, save, print out a worksheet and export a PDF file. Also quickly shows how to make a shaped and word search puzzle.
• Making a cryptic or quick crossword
  8 minutes, with speech. Demonstrates how to select a grid pattern, and how to use AutoFind and AutoFill to fit in words.
• Using the Pro Grid Filler
  3 minutes, silent. How to fit theme words and use manual word selection using the optional Professional Grid Filler.
• Making a sudoku
  1 minute, silent. How to make a sudoku quickly.
• Uploading a puzzle to the web
  1 minute, silent. Using the Web Publish button and the web hosting account.
• What's new in version 8
  4 minutes, silent. A tour of the main new features in version 8.
• More coming soon!

Help and questions

An extensive help file is provided with the program with details about all the features: press F1 at any time when running the program, or see Crossword Compiler's Help menu.

If you have a question you may find that it is answered on the Frequently Asked Questions page. Otherwise please see the contact page.