Welcome to Crosserville
Your one-stop-shop for constructing quality crossword puzzles
With our Grid Builder tool you can:
- Create grids
- Specify your layout or import an Across Lite puz file
- Add rebuses, circles, and shaded squares to your grids
- Save puzzles locally or in the cloud
- Search for fill
- Find fill for the whole grid or just show options for a particular slot
- Set filters based on word score or as an include or exclude word list
- Specify filters at the grid or slot level
- Find potential dupes
- Save intermediate restore points as you fill your grid
- Manage word lists
- Use our default, 169,000+ curated word list or import your own
- Add, exclude, or modify word scores from within the app
- Search word lists using regular expressions
- Edit clues
- Find example clues in our integrated clue database
- Find possible dupes with grid entries
- Format clues using styles such as italic or bold
- Export and share your puzzles
- Export puzzles as puz files, PDFs, or as a NY Times submission
- Export partially completed grids to facilitate collaborations
To get started, create an account.
Want to see the tool in action? Check out our tutorial video.