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FAQs

How do you write a clue for a crossword puzzle? ›

Look at crossword puzzle clues in your daily newspaper or online for more examples. And when you write your clues, look in a dictionary or thesaurus for synonyms and definitions. When writing your clues for the online Crossword Puzzles tool, remember that you: Can write clues that contain up to 60 letters and spaces.

Include both long and short words… but don't have many words under four letters. Try and choose words which include lots of 'often used' letters… such as the vowels A, E, I, O, U plus S, T, L, M, N… which will be easier to fit together. Avoid too many words that use Z, Q and X for the same reason!

Tackle the easiest clues first.

Scan through the clues, and knock out all the easiest ones. Not only will this give your gameplay some structure, but also it'll give you an ego boost! Typically, fill-in-the-blank clues are the easiest. For example: “___ of Oz.”

Perhaps the most famous is the November 5, 1996, puzzle by Jeremiah Farrell, published on the day of the U.S. presidential election, which has been featured in the movie Wordplay and the book The Crossword Obsession by Coral Amende, as well as discussed by Peter Jennings on ABC News, featured on CNN, and elsewhere.

cru·​ci·​ver·​bal·​ist. ˌkrüsəˈvərbələ̇st. : a person skillful in creating or solving crossword puzzles.

The Monday New York Times Crosswords are the easiest, and the puzzles get harder as the week goes on. Solve as many of the Mondays as you can before pushing yourself to Tuesday puzzles. You can thank us later. This is probably a beginning solver's most common mistake.

EclipseCrossword is the fast, easy, free way to create crossword puzzles in minutes. It's never been simpler: just give EclipseCrossword a list of words and clues, and it does the rest. In seconds, you'll have a crossword puzzle with just the words you want.

Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to separate entries. The first white square in each entry is typically numbered to correspond to its clue. Crosswords commonly appear in newspapers and magazines.

The best approach to solving is to enter the starter letters, wherever the relevant numbers appear, and once these are in, to see if any words suggest themselves. For several reasons, undertaking an analysis of letter frequency is not very useful as an approach to solving these puzzles.

How are crossword clues written? ›

For those new to the game, we reveal the secret in a nutshell: The clues each have two parts. One part is a normal definition of the answer; the other is an additional hint using wordplay. Having two hints in each clue might seem a big giveaway to solvers. Why aren't these clues twice as easy?

If you're writing a crossword to be solved by more than one person, your clues need to be general enough to be understood by everyone who's going to try and solve them. It's common sense: a clue is no good if no-one understands it. If people don't understand the clue, they're not going to get the answer!

The themed answers don't have to cross each other, but they must be placed symmetrically: In other words, if "Cat in the Hat" is an answer, and the answer is going to run across the puzzle, make sure you leave as many blank spaces to the left of the first letter (c) as you leave to the right of the last letter (t).

About Crossword

A typical puzzle includes two lists of numbered clues, one for answers that go across the grid (horizontal), and one for answers that go down (vertical). The grid contains blank and black squares. The answers are entered in the blank squares.