The Crossword puzzle maker is used to make simple crossword puzzles. It turns out that good crossword puzzles of the type found in newspapers are fairly hard to generate, and require a pool of lots of words, not all of which are used. This program puts all of the words you specify (no more, no less) into a simple crossword puzzle.

The puzzle that is generated will remain on this server for about two months. If you want to ensure that you have a copy of the generated puzzle, make sure you save a copy.

If you want help with international characters, you can call up an Alphabet chart to use for cutting and pasting letters that are hard to type. This chart will come up in a separate window.

I had a disk drive that died on me. I took the opportunity to update the OS as well. Let me know if you see anything that doesn't work the way it used to.

Paolo Guanciarossa has updated the "Solve Online" to be much easier to use. Use the Tab key to change between across and down. You can type in the answer to the puzzle in an obvious fashion, and the cursor moves to the next appropriate cell in the puzzle.

Dave Regan [email protected]

The first part of this is for you to enter a list of words and clues.

Once that part is done, hit the Make Puzzle button for a puzzle which incorporates your words.

As the number of words you put in the puzzle, increases, the wait increases exponentially. However, if you want a puzzle that is larger than what fits with this form, go to the Large Puzzle page.

Tip: The puzzles you make are available to be edited on the computer you made them with. The $10/year subscription allows you to edit your puzzles on any computer (for instance at home and at school). See the signup page for more information.