/xwtweaks

Quality-of-life browser extension for New York Times crosswords and puzzles

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xwTweaks

Quality-of-life improvements for New York Times crosswords and puzzles

Features

  • Keyboard shortcuts for crosswords/acrostics
    • Hold Shift for pencil mode
    • Press grave (`) to pause
  • Adds links to all puzzles in the navbar for easy access
  • Spelling Bee: Letter shading to assist with pangrams
  • SET: Clearer distinction selected vs. unselected tiles when hovering
  • Nitpicky removal of style annoyances
    • Removes title text on crossword board
    • Allows you to collapse all the days on the stats page bar graph
    • Replace the 'how to solve' link on the homepage with a much smaller one
    • Remove ugly "FREE" badges from puzzle links on the homepage

To-do list

  • Known issues to be fixed
    • If you switch tabs from a crossword while holding Shift, the pencil mode will stay on until you manually turn it off.
    • If NYT ever makes a crossword with the grave character in it, there is no easy way to type it. (Workaround: Type ` somewhere else, copy it, enter Rebus mode, and paste it.)
  • Create an options page
    • Allow user to disable features they don't like
  • Allow rebinding of keyboard shortcuts
  • If you right-click a letter in Spelling Bee, it will repeat endlessly as long as the right-click context menu is open. This is NYT's bug, not mine, but I'd like to fix it all the same.