Welcome to Crosserville

Your one-stop shop for constructing professional-quality crossword puzzles

🔨 Build Custom Grids

Design from scratch or import .puz files. Add rebuses, circles, or shaded squares. Save locally or to the cloud.

🔍 Customizable Fill Search

Filter fill options using global or slot-based rules. Slot filters can be formulated as a word score threshold or include/exclude lists.

📚 Word List Management

Use our curated 171K+ word list or upload your own. Adjust scores, exclude entries, and run regex searches.

✏️ Clue Writing Tools

Search our clue database for inspiration, format clues using styles such as italic or bold, and check for duplicates within grid entries.

📤 Export & Share

Export your puzzles to .puz, PDF, or NYT submission format. Easily collaborate by sharing partial grids with others.

✂️ Constructor Tools

Search for grids based on theme slot patterns, explore stats of published puzzles, and look up whether a theme entry has been used before.

To get started, create an account.

Want to see the tool in action? Check out our tutorial video.