Crossword Maker

Crossword Maker is an interesting and efficient piece of software whose main function consists of helping you create crossword puzzles, which you can solve yourself as well as give to your children or students to work on, particularly useful for language acquisition classes for instance.

Subsequent to a very brief and uneventful installation, the application will open a window in Internet Explorer, as it makes use of the browser’s interface in order to function. As such, you need to have it on your system, otherwise you cannot work with Crossword Maker.

Crossword Maker offers the necessary instructions in the main window of the program, informing you that you need to enter each letter of the words in your puzzle separated by a comma, keeping in mind that all lines need to have the same number of cells.

In order to create the columns and rows, you need to input the number of cells you wish to use in the top left, also separated by commas, for instance ‘1,2,3,4,5’, while typing a letter next to each number will place the number in the white square at the top and the letter in the center, for example ‘1T,2E,3S,4T’.

Moreover, in order to insert a black square into the crossword, you simply need to enter a plus sign in between the words, such as ‘S,o,f,t,p,e,d,i,a,+,t,e,s,t’. Similarly, a white square can be added by using a blank, followed by a comma (‘ , , , , ‘).

When the schema is complete, you can click on the ‘Submit Query’ button, and you will have your result within moments. The generated crosswords can be previewed or downloaded to your computer, in either PNG or JPG format, allowing you to print them in as many copies as you need.