Crossword Compiler [commercial]

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[url=\"http://www.crossword-compiler.com/\"]Crossword Puzzle Maker[/url] Software for Windows
NEW Version 7.2; includes Sudoku puzzle generator and export

Crossword Compiler has everything you need to create great educational, professional, and fun crossword puzzles. The program can make a vocabulary puzzle from your own words in seconds, or fill in one of the many supplied grid patterns from a word list.

There are several different puzzle styles to choose from, and many tools to help you create great grids and clues in a snap. You can print out and export your puzzles in many ways, including interactive online crosswords for your web page. The program combines ease of use for the casual user with many advanced features for the serious constructor. This is the software used by most of the puzzle makers for the New York Times and other papers, and is widely used by professionals, teachers and hobbyists from around the world. Try out the [url=\"http://www.crossword-compiler.com/download.html\"]free demo[/url].

Puzzles for education
Create fun vocabulary puzzles automatically from a list of words. Many theme lists are supplied, or make your own. Write some clues, print out (or put on the web!) and you have the perfect teaching aid.

Professional crosswords
A complete suite of tools for creating high-quality crossword puzzles. Fill grids automatically from word lists, find words, manage words and clues, and much more.

Web publishing
Make interactive crosswords for your web site! Create web pages quickly and easily with the flexible solving applet.

Puzzle styles
American, cryptic, quick, freeform, coded, French-style, and clues-in-squares crosswords are all supported. Also generate Sudoku puzzles.

Crossword Compiler is widely recognized as the best puzzlemaker software available.

Add-Ons:

[b]The Professional Grid Filler[/b]
The most powerful grid filling system available.

The Professional Grid Filler is many times more powerful than the standard filler, which is itself extremely fast and flexible. For example filling a 6x6 word square with the Pro filler is up to 10 times faster!

You can also take complete control over which words are used by using manual word selection:

The window shows you which words are available for each slot in the grid. The program also checks the words to make sure they have possible intersecting words, so you waste minimal time choosing words that you'll have to remove later.

Pick each word used by hand to create top quality crosswords quickly and easily, or switch to Auto-Pick to do it automatically. The words can be sorted by their score, so the best words are listed near the top. Selecting a word shows the intersecting words that will be formed as a result of using the word, so you have full information about the words that will be used. You can also lookup a word in [url=\"http://www.crossword-compiler.com/wordweb.html\"]WordWeb Pro[/url] or another dictionary. If you have a clue database you can use the Pro Grid Filler to view and select clues during the filling process.

There are also new advanced options in the Fill Grid window to give you control over the filling process. For example you can decide whether the fill should start at the word slot at the cursor position, or whether the program should determine where it thinks is the best place to start.

Note that the new grid filler can only work with alphabets containing a maximum of 31 different letters (so OK for most languages).

The Professional Grid Filler also comes with a grid library of American grids named by word length - handy for finding grids for making themed puzzles.

[b]Additional word lists[/b]

* 300 000 less common words
* 240 000 compounds and phrases
* 173 000 Scrabble word list
* UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary
(List of 240 000+ words)
* 25 000 medical words, 16 000 legal words
* 8000 movies, 5000 literature-related
* 20 000 people's names, 59 000 plant names
* 4000 world cities, 10 000 world towns
* 230 000 words and 70 000 expressions from Webster's 2nd.
* 25 000 ethnic words
* 19 000 Scottish words

Language word lists

* Danish
* Dutch
* French
* Finnish
* German
* Hungarian
* Icelandic
* Italian
* Latin
* Norwegian
* Portuguese
* Russian
* Spanish
* Swedish

Geographical word lists

* 37 000 UK, 16 000 US place names
* Places names and geographical features for many countries

[b]Prices:[/b]

WordWeb Pro (thesaurus/dictionary add-on) Single-user - $19
Additional word lists Single-user - $25
Language word lists Single-user - $12.50
Geographical word lists Single-user - $12.50
Pro Grid Filler add-on Single-user - $99
Standard Bundle (all the above except the Pro Grid Filler) Single User $89.00
Professional Bundle (all the above including the Pro Grid Filler) Single User $159.00