A crossword with your own clues.
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By Suraj Kumar3 min read
A crossword about the people at a birthday, a lesson's words or a team's jokes: you write the clues, it lays the grid.
A word and its clue on each line.
Write the word, a colon, then the clue, such as moon: It goes round the Earth. A tab, an equals sign or a dash between them works too, so a list from a spreadsheet pastes straight in. No clue or word list is copied from anywhere; every clue is yours.
Laid out and numbered for you.
The longest word goes first, and each next word where it crosses most, never touching another word side by side. A dozen layouts are tried and the one that fits most words in the smallest square is kept. A word that shares no letter it can cross on is named, so you can change it.
Squares are numbered in reading order, as newspapers number them, and each clue shows its word's length.
Grid, clues and answers.
The grid and the clues share a page when they fit, and the clues get a page of their own when they do not; the answers come last. New puzzle tries another layout of the same words.
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Topics: crossword maker · crossword puzzle maker · make a crossword · crossword generator with clues · printable crossword
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