Crosswords

About this app

Play Crossword puzzles from newspapers around the world right on your Mac! Each day many newspapers provide their crossword puzzles online; with one click you can download and solve them, get hints, view clues, and track how quickly you're improving. Start a puzzle on your Mac, then finish it on your iPhone or iPad. The #1 Crossword Player on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch just landed on your Mac! • New puzzles every day • Synchronize puzzles between your Mac, iPhone and iPad • Right-click a square to view hints • Automatically downloads all of today's puzzles • Nearly unlimited puzzles from many different sites • 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, provider, or difficulty • Detailed info on each puzzle • Post your solve times online and compare with other solvers • Grab older puzzles with a click Using Puzzle Sync, you can pick up a puzzle on any device, work on it, and finish it on another, seamlessly. Included Puzzle Sources: • Village Voice (archives only) • Chronicle of Higher Education (archives only) • Manchester Evening News (archives only) • King Features Crosswords • People Magazine (archives only) • Newsday * Providers list subject to change. Some providers may no longer be publishing, but may sill have older puzzles available in Archive form, accessible via the "Download Older Puzzles" option * • For support, please visit our website at http://www.standalone.com • Please note that Crosswords requires an internet connection to download puzzles. Puzzle Sync requires the purchase of Crosswords or Crosswords Classic from the iOS App Store.

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1. First observed Aug 13, 2026 · 9:45 PM $19.99