Crossword

The crossword is the most common variety of word puzzle in the world. Modern crosswords take the form of a square grid of black and white squares; the aim is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words (or word phrases) reading across and down, by solving clues which yield the words. The black squares (commonly called "blanks") have no letters, and are used to separate words (all contiguous blocks of white squares spell words or phrases). Squares in which answers begin are numbered, left to right, top to bottom. The clues are then referred to by these numbers (ambiguities are resolved by the common practice of referring to clues by both number and direction – for example, "1-Across" or "17-Down"); at the end of the clue the total number of letters is sometimes given for the convenience of the solver, although in many widely distributed American crosswords such as the New York Times and Dell Magazines this is often omitted.

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• Crossdown software for crosswords, acrostics and cryptograms
• Online Crosswords
• Daily Translation Crosswords
• The Hindu Crossword Yahoogroup
• Daily solutions to The Hindu Crossword by Vinod Raman
• Crossword Puzzles
• Play one of seven Online Daily Crossword Puzzle Games
• Crosswords (by Ray Hamel)
• Goobix Crossword Puzzles (3x3 and 4x4 dimensions)
• Crossword Puzzles for students of English
• Online word searching tool
• OneAcross.com Crossword Clue Solver
• WordFind - program to find words, anagrams and palindromes
• American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
• Coded Cross-words Cipher crosswords
• Why are crossword puzzles symmetrical? (from The Straight Dope)
• Website for those interested in creating their own crosswords
• Mindgames Xword (freeware) Create crossword puzzles in a flexible manner