Crossword Maker

Use Latin letters, including accents, spaces, hyphens, and apostrophes. “Café” becomes CAFE and “Ice Cream” becomes ICECREAM in the grid, while the optional word bank keeps the original label. Answers need at least two letters and must fit the chosen grid ceiling. Unsupported characters show an error.

A missing clue becomes “A word with N letters.” The first colon separates the answer from its clue; later colons stay in the clue. A spaced dash also works. Repeated normalized answers are combined, preserving one readable label. Conflicting duplicate clues show an error so you can choose which one to keep. Up to 50 unique answers are accepted without truncation.

Every answer must fit one connected crossword without conflicting letters or stray adjacent words. The maker has a fixed work budget and reports unplaced answers instead of dropping them. A 50-word list is not guaranteed to fit 21 × 21. Use shared letters, fewer or shorter words, a larger ceiling, or another arrangement.

The normalized answer set, grid ceiling, and arrangement determine the grid. Title, clue text, paper size, word bank, and answer-key preview do not change its letters or numbering. Each arrangement has a different seed, though a very constrained list can still produce the same layout.

Yes. Editing the words switches to Custom without clearing them. Selecting Custom keeps your list. Replacing manually edited words, clues, or title with another theme requires confirmation. Other settings stay the same.

Print opens the generated worksheet PDF. When printing the web page directly, browser-added headers and footers are controlled by the print dialog, not by worksheet CSS.