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Crosswords app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 5824 ratings )
Games Entertainment Puzzle Word
Developer: Stand Alone, Inc.
Free
Current version: 3.60.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 02 Oct 2013
App size: 17.29 Mb

"… the definitive source for puzzles for iOS…" -- the New York Times

Play the Award Winning Crosswords on your iPad or iPhone, optimized for iOS 12! Each day many newspapers provide their crossword puzzles online; wake up each day to new puzzles, solve them, get hints, view clues, and track how quickly youre improving!

• Touch and hold a square to view hints
• US and UK Cryptic puzzles available
• Hints, Websites, and Clue lookups
• Enter answers in ink or pencil
• Quickly see your recently played, or sort by date, difficulty or source
• Detailed info on each puzzle
• Post your solve times online and compare with other solvers

After upgrading, you can also:
• Automatically get new puzzles every day
• Access nearly unlimited puzzles from many different sources
• Grab older puzzles with a tap
• Download new puzzles automatically in the background

Upgraded Puzzle Sources:
• Brendan Emmett Quigleys Weekly Puzzle
• Inkwell Crossword (Archives only)
• Village Voice (Archives only)
• Chronicle of Higher Education (Archives only)
• King Features Crosswords (Joseph, Sheffer, and Premier)
• People Magazine (Archives only)
• Newsday (Archives only)
• Andy Kravis, Cruciverbist at Law
• Glutton for Pun
• MacNamara’s Band
• Murchie’s Monday Fills
• Neville Fogarty
• Puzzle Express
• The Stickler Weekly
• World of Crosswords

Premium Crosswords subscription required:
• Matt Gaffney’s Crossword Contest
• American Values Crossword
• Crooked Crosswords

Providers list subject to change.
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Pros and cons of Crosswords app for iPhone and iPad

Crosswords app good for

Excellent, userfriendly crossword app, but there are two main bugs that are irksome. 1) if I use the hint function, return to the puzzle and then tap the timer, it wont let me return to the puzzle; 2) if I switch puzzles, navigating between sections using the arrows sometimes skips rows/columns.
I especially like the good ergonomics. Works well with built-in keyboard and with a Bluetooth keyboard. Single square reveal keeps you more honest.
Love the app, but after the latest update some of the horizontal lines between rows flicker on the iPhone 6
Waouu this app is amazing, how the developer could manage this kind of game with this simplicity. Congrats
A lot of Crosswords and different sources! Definitively the ultimate Crosswords app!
This is the perfect Crosswords game! It has the simple (for people like me) and the challenging for Crosswords pros! I like the backgrounds of the loading screen. And it is set up in a user friendly manner. This game is enjoyable and I would recommend it for anybody, especially for long car rides and such.

Some bad moments

The just released update renders the app un-useable! Nothing works! Used to be able to touch a column or row and go to that place but that does not work after the update. Cant get back to the puzzle menu anymore either. Dont bother with this app until they fix it. Uninstalling it.
I have been loving this app since my days with an original iPad. Without hesitation, I paid the fairly hefty premium for the full version. I am disappointed that I cant recommend the current version—its buggy, and the developer has been slow or outright unresponsive to my bug reports and suggestions. Some of the bugs are deal-breakers.
This app is consistently rated as one of the top crossword apps but it has stability issues on multiple iPads (Retina, Air 2). Switching to and from the app causes the grid of puzzles to freeze or show a blank screens. Frequently puzzles in progress will be displayed in the grid of puzzles as all black. The only fix is the kill the app and restart it. It’s been this way for months so if this is the best app for Crosswords on iOS, I’m can’t imagine what the other lower-rated ones are like.
The app works, but there are frequent drawing and navigation glitches. It often takes two or three taps of the Menu button to actually get the menu. And the menu itself! I realize the developers probably thought it would be cool to have it pop over the current square, but the fact that the buttons are really small and they move around means you have to look closely for the button you want then tap carefully on the right one every time. Sometimes, tapping the arrow to skip to the next clue in fact skips to the one after that—or it it just doesn’t skip at all. Theyve had years to get this right, with this and the Crosswords Classic app. Bugs are fixed, only to reappear a few versions later. All in all, it’s quite maddening and frustrating.
So this app recently stopped connecting to the Internet... None of the websites attached to the app including developer sites are working either. Time to look for a new app.
Took a little while to get used to the new flat UI, but its grown on me, i like it

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