Crossdown is a professional crossword puzzle development application. Use it to construct real crosswords just like the kind which appear in newspapers and magazines. With Crossdown's many features, routine tasks and errors are eliminated, leaving you to concentrate on creating entertaining and original puzzles. This latest version of Crossdown includes Crossdown Librarian and Crossdown Cluebank.

This all new Version 7 of Crossdown is a professional crossword development application, designed for the professional and serious hobbyist to construct authentic crossword puzzles like the kind appearing in most daily newspapers. It is not a word web generator. Generators automatically build what resembles an unfinished Scrabble board from a pre-defined word list. Crossdown does not do this. With Crossdown you have complete control over all aspects of the construction process. You put together the puzzle using your own creativity, wit, and intelligence, exactly the way the professionals work. Crossdown is a snap to use, right "out of the box," and includes a number of tools to make crossword building lots more fun and free of common errors. Crossdown includes Cluebank, a powerful database in which you can store thousands of crossword clues. You can lookup these clues by searching for a word then insert them in the Across or Down columns with a single mouse click, or even have Cluebank automatically clue the entire puzzle for you. Crossdown includes Librarian, a tool that allows you to organize your puzzles and quickly view them, or copy them, or search them. The Clone tool enables you to reuse grid designs. Mailbot is a fast way to e-mail a puzzle to another Crossdown user. The output functions of Crossdown are extremely comprehensive. You can print puzzles in a variety of formats. You can output puzzles as PDF files, WMF files, or EPS files. You can output puzzles to the Windows clipboard. You can deploy puzzles to websites for interactive solving. Crossdown also comes with a lavishly illustrated, indexed Help system explaining its many functions and how to construct crosswords. In short, Crossdown gives you everything you need to make real crossword puzzles the right way.

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