Crossword Express 7.8

Make your own crosswords and other puzzles using your own words and clues. Print your puzzles in a wide range of formats including Standard, Clue-In-Puzzle, Fill-In, Tangled, Fractured, CodeWord and French style, or export them to the Clipboard and then paste into your Desk Top Publishing application. Other features include (1) Make standard puzzles just like you see in your morning paper, free-form puzzles from your word list having as few as ten words, or themed puzzles on any topic you care to choose. (2) Make puzzles using fonts other than the normal Roman font. Greek and Cyrillic puzzles are no problem. If you choose to make Hebrew or Arabic puzzles, you will be able to do your dictionary editing in the required right-to-left mode, and puzzles will also be printed in the correct mode for these languages. (3) Eleven free Java Applets are available for interactive publication of your puzzles on the web. (4) Make WordSearch puzzles including an optional secret message which occupies the spaces wich are not used by any of the words. (5) Make anagram puzzles in which the words do not actually interlink, but are related to each other in terms of anagrams. Although not actually Crossword puzzles, they are compatible with them in all respects, and can be published using the standard applet. (6)Make Acrostic puzzles quickly and easily. (7)A full range of 13 on-screen Solve functions allow you to solve your puzzles in a number of interesting ways. WordSearch, Acrostic, Sudoku, Kakuro and GrandTour solve functions are included (8) All new operational features are added simultaneously to both the Windows and Macintosh versions of the program. (9) When you register for Crossword Express, you get a lifetime registration which means that you will never be asked to pay for an upgrade. AUS-PC-SOFT has a policy of on-going development, so the many new and interesting features planned for the future will be yours to enjoy free of charge for many years to come.

Requirements: Windows 95 or better

What's new in this version: Improvements to GrandTour puzzle generation function.