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Words With Crosses app for Android

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Words With Crosses

Words With Crosses is a free, open-source crossword puzzle app for Android. It was forked from Shortyz Crosswords by Robert Cooper.

Words With Crosses is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3. See the file COPYING.html for the license text.

If you'd like to support the continued development of Words With Crosses, please donate. This is a side project of mine done in my spare time, outside of my day job.

Downloadd Words With Crosses on Google Play

Features

  • Automatic download of over 20 different daily, weekly, and monthly puzzles
  • Download .puz and .jpz files from the web or from your email
  • Supports circled letters appearing in some puzzles
  • Optional puzzle timer
  • Optional hinting feature to reveal letters, words, or the whole puzzle
  • Supports phones and tablets running Android 1.6 and higher

Puzzle sources

  • American Values Club xword
  • Andy Kravis, Cruciverbalist at Law
  • Brendan Emmett Quigley (manual download required)
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • CRooked Crosswords
  • Crossword Nation
  • Daily Record
  • Der Standard (thanks to Wolfgang Groiss!)
  • Devil Cross
  • Erik Agard
  • Ink Well Xwords
  • Jonesin' Crosswords
  • Joseph Crosswords
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Matt Gaffney's Daily Crossword (manual download required)
  • Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest (manual download required)
  • Muller Monthly Music Meta
  • Neville Fogarty
  • New York Times (paid subscription required)
  • Patrick Blindauer Free Monthly Puzzle
  • People Puzzler
  • Premier Crosswords
  • Sheffer Crosswords
  • Stan Newman's Newsday Crossword
  • Universal Crossword
  • USA Today
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Washington Post (aka CrosSynergy)
  • Washington Post Puzzler

License

Words With Crosses is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Verion 3.

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