crossword.gripe

Crossword maker: your words, your clues, a grid in one click.

Your words and clues

For example Mercury - Closest planet to the sun. Spaces and punctuation in answers are dropped.

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Your grid shows up here.

How the crossword maker works

Type each answer with its clue, one per line, and press Make the crossword. The maker tries a few dozen arrangements and keeps the most compact one that fits the most words. Words that share no letters with anything else can't be joined in, and it tells you which ones. Not happy with the shape? Try another layout.

Download PDF gives you a page with the empty grid and numbered clues, plus a separate answer key page. It's sized for US Letter or A4 and prints in black and white.

Copy solving link puts the whole puzzle, answers included, inside the link. Anyone who opens it can solve it on crossword.gripe with checking and a timer. Nothing is uploaded and we keep no copy, so if you lose the link, it's gone. Keep in mind the answers are in the link too, so a determined student could dig them out.

Your word list is saved in this browser so it's still here when you come back. Clear deletes it.

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