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Crosswords for Mac

Play crosswords from around the world.

$19.99
In English
2.5
Based on 1 user rate

Crosswords overview

Crosswords lets you play crossword puzzles from newspapers around the world right on your Mac! Each day many newspapers provide their crossword puzzles online; with one click you can download and solve them, get hints, view clues, and track how quickly you're improving. start a puzzle on your Mac, then finish it on your iPhone or iPad.

Features
  • New puzzles every day
  • Synchronize puzzles between your Mac, iPhone, and iPad
  • Right-click a square to view hints
  • Automatically downloads all of today's puzzles
  • Nearly unlimited puzzles from many different sites
  • 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, provider, or difficulty
  • Detailed info on each puzzle
  • Post your solve times online and compare with other solvers
  • Grab older puzzles with a click
Puzzle Sources
  • Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday
  • Village Voice
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • The Independent
  • Manchester Evening News
  • King Features Crosswords
  • Telegraph UK Quick & Cryptic Crosswords (subscription required)
  • People Magazine
  • Newsday

What’s new in version 2.02.11

  • Fixed a crash on new Macs, some leader board issues.
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Crosswords for Mac

$19.99
In English
Version 2.02.11
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2.5

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MichaelP3926
MichaelP3926
Nov 7 2014
1.02
2.5
Nov 7 2014
2.5
Version: 1.02
Crosswords is good, but needs to be updated to fix bug of not being able to properly select dates for past puzzles. The iOS app is much better.
MichaelP3926
MichaelP3926
Nov 7 2014
2.5
Nov 7 2014
2.5
Version: null