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Crossword Editor

Create crossword puzzles

Jonathan Blandford ✓ Verified

org.gnome.Crosswords.Editor
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A tool for authoring and editing pencil-and-paper style puzzles. Its features include:

  • Supports multiple crossword types, including barred and cryptics
  • Loads and saves .ipuz file format
  • Style support for individual cells
  • Suggests words when creating grids
  • Autofill functionality and theme word best-fit
  • Word definitions and indicator hints for writing clues

Screenshots

Dialog to choose the puzzle type to make
Dialog to choose the puzzle type to make
Main editor window editing a grid
Main editor window editing a grid
Main editor window editing clues
Main editor window editing clues

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Upstream releases

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0.3.18.114 Jul 2026

New features and improvements in this release:

  • Added an overlay to the grid editor: Adds spell checking, heatmap, and unch/dead cell checking
  • Global skip list that persists across sessions and dictionary changes
  • Improved histogram for grid data
  • Theme words dialog improvements. Filters out invalid grids
  • Magnifier to give a zoomed view of the current cell
  • Auto advance during clue entry
  • Many small interface improvements
0.3.174 Feb 2026

New features and improvements in this release:

  • Expanded library of grid templates, sorted by "settability"
  • New dialog and solver for theme word management
  • New dialog displaying indicator hints for cryptic crosswords
  • Printing support added
0.3.1619 Oct 2025

This release adds the following new features:

  • Improved wordlist: better performance, correctness, and appearance
  • Drop deprecated GTK widgets in favor of libadwaita variants
0.3.152 Jun 2025

Bugfix and UI improvements:

  • Autofill fixes
  • Thumbnailer works with arrowwords
  • Beta version of Acrostic editor
  • Clean up "Save As..." dialog
  • Autofill selection vastly improved
  • Word list speedups and fixes
  • Barred puzzles render better
  • Add basic mime sniffing to loading code
  • Dividers render correctly
  • Cell labels render correctly with complex scripts and rebuses