"… the definitive source for puzzles for iOS…" -- the New York Times
Play the Award Winning Crosswords on your iPad or iPhone, optimized for iOS 12! Each day many newspapers provide their crossword puzzles online; wake up each day to new puzzles, solve them, get hints, view clues, and track how quickly you're improving!
• Touch and hold a square to view hints
• 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, difficulty or source
• Detailed info on each puzzle
• Post your solve times online and compare with other solvers
After upgrading, you can also:
• Automatically get new puzzles every day
• Access nearly unlimited puzzles from many different sources
• Grab older puzzles with a tap
• Download new puzzles automatically in the background
Upgraded Puzzle Sources:
• Brendan Emmett Quigley's Weekly Puzzle
• Inkwell Crossword (Archives only)
• Village Voice (Archives only)
• Chronicle of Higher Education (Archives only)
• King Features Crosswords (Joseph, Sheffer, and Premier)
• People Magazine (Archives only)
• Newsday (Archives only)
• Andy Kravis, Cruciverbist at Law
• Glutton for Pun
• MacNamara’s Band
• Murchie’s Monday Fills
• Neville Fogarty
• Puzzle Express
• The Stickler Weekly
• World of Crosswords
Premium Crosswords subscription required:
• Matt Gaffney’s Crossword Contest
• American Values Crossword
• Crooked Crosswords
Providers list subject to change.
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In-Apps
Crosswords Pro
$9.99
Dell Crosswords
$1.99
Edited By Tausig 2
$2.99
Jonesin' Crosswords
$2.99
Ridonkulous Crosswords
$1.99
Ink Well Xwords, Vol. 1
$1.99
Crosswords Pro (Upgrade)
$3.99
Edited by Ben Tausig, Vol. 1
$1.99
Brendan Emmett Quigley Freestyle
$2.99
Crossword Nation's Centennial Edition
$7.99
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Crosswords FAQ
Is Crosswords free?
Yes, Crosswords is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
Is Crosswords legit?
⚠️ The Crosswords app has poor ratings and negative feedback. Users seem unsatisfied with its performance or features.
Thanks for the vote
How much does Crosswords cost?
Crosswords has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is 3.89 $.
I’ve been enjoying g this app for several weeks. Then, I noticed clues did not match puzzles, answer spaces were cut off on the right and bottom edges, Hints function stopped working. I deleted the app and reinstalled, but it still does not work the way it did last week.
Upgrade doesn’t work
It claims if you bought pro on the old version it will give you a discount to buy pro on this one, but it won’t! It does load the old version quickly before going to the purchase screen so it should find my purchase history, but it never activates! Awful!
Going Downhill for voiceover users :(
This is the only crossword app I have found accessible to blind folks with screen readers, but it has developed some problems, and sai does not return my emails. Also The best puzzle (quigley) seems to be gone now. I have never seen ny times puzzrs in this app. Pleeeeez bring back Quigley!!!!
I like this
Responsive, fresh, and notebook/iPad oriented for once. Clues are better than easy. Two suggestions: implement the arrow keys on the magic keyboard. Add auto sizing: on the iPad Air you have to scroll a bit to get around.
No additional puzzles
App comes with a few starter puzzles and offers other bundles for sale. I tried to buy two of these, they took my money, never provided any additional puzzles. So, for two bucks it’s not worth my time to pursue. But save your own time and money and don’t deal with these crooks.
Can’t use numbers on keyboard
Please fix this bug
Buggy App, Unresponsive Publisher
I’ve used this for years and put up with lots of little bugs because the volume and assortment of puzzles was good. Lately I’ve found that more than half the time, none of the difficult or hard puzzles show up on the list…then will randomly reappear. I’ve contacted the publisher and gotten no response. Looking at the many negative reviews here to which there are also no responses, I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath.
From 5 stars to 2
I was loving these puzzles until I suddenly had no access unless I paid. They shouldn’t say it’s free if it requires purchases later.
Purchased bundle doesn’t download
Purchase a puzzle bundle and it thinks it downloaded, screen is blank, no puzzles. Tried to download a different sample problem. It asked to start now, I answered yes. I got a blank screen with a running clock in the bottom right. This app is definitely not recommended.
Screens Not Reformatted + Other Issues
Screens seem to not be updated for iPhone 14. Will re-review if/when fixed. (Just rebought because I switched from Android to iPhone.)
Settings don’t work correctly. Stuck with this app because I love AVCX and it’s the only one that supports them. The settings one sets don’t actually get applied when solving a puzzle. It’s… just a mess.