Newspaper Crossword Puzzles

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About this game

Do you like crossword puzzles? Tired of all those repetitive boring and easy crossword puzzle apps? Well welcome to the Daily Newspaper Crossword Puzzle app! Our crossword puzzle app only accesses all original and freshly updated crossword puzzles. Download daily and weekly crossword puzzles, scrape from webpages, or import your own puzzle sources via a URL. There is also a regularly updated puzzle source webpage that contains many other puzzle sources which can also be accessed and downloaded via the app.

This app is a fork of the Shortyz crossword app that has been discontinued. It has been updated and modified to work on the latest version of Android as well as most older versions of Android.

This app has many features, see screenshots for all settings options. There is also a dark mode, light mode, or device theme. The puzzle sources are mostly English, with some French, German, Polish, and other international puzzle sources.

The app can be hooked into external dictionaries, ChatGPT (API Key Required), DuckDuckGo clue search, Fifteen Squared, and has a built-in crossword solver.

The app includes Import/Export Settings, Keyboard Settings, Display Settings, Browser Settings, Interaction Settings, and Many Additional App Options! (See Screenshots)

Puzzle Sources Included, But Not Limited To:

Daily Sources:
New York Times Syndicated
The Wall Street Journal
USA Today
Newsday
Sheffer Crossword
Universal Crossword
Guardian Daily Cryptic
Independent Daily Cryptic
Irish News Cryptic
Thomas Jones Crossword
Metro Cryptic
20 Minutes
Le Parisien Force 1,2,3,4
De Standard
Hamburger Abendblatt


Weekly Sources:
The Washington Post Sunday
Jonesin' Crossword
Guardian Weekly Quptic
Premier Crossword
De Telegraaf


Page Scrapers:
Cryptic Cru Workshop Archive
Guardian Everyman
Guardian Quick Crossword
Kegler's Kryptics
Private Eye
Przekroj

Looking for more puzzle action? Simply click on download and change the date, there are thousands of previous puzzles in the archive.

NOTE: The puzzle update frequency varies with each puzzle source. Sometimes for unknown reasons puzzles may not be published, or may skip days, updates are dependent on the puzzle source and have nothing to do with the App functioning properly. If the puzzle source does not publish on that day there is no update.

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“What's A Nine Letter Word For A 'Type Of Word Puzzle Game?'

Like playing the Will Shortz New York Times Edition Crossword? USA Today Crossword? Washington Post Crossword? The Wall Street Journal Crossword? or The Guardian Cryptic? Play all these crossword puzzles and many others on any Android Mobile Device. Browse daily or weekly crosswords and access crossword puzzle archives for endless hours of crossword puzzle challenges to solve offline anywhere in the world!

FACT: 2013 is the 100th anniversary of the crossword puzzle. On December 21, 1913, Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England, published a "word-cross" puzzle in the New York World that embodied most of the features of the genre as we know it. This puzzle is frequently cited as the first crossword puzzle, and Wynne as the inventor. Later, the name of the puzzle was changed to "crossword"

DID YOU KNOW?

In 1944, Allied security officers were disturbed by the appearance, in a series of crosswords in The Daily Telegraph, of words that were secret code names for military operations planned as part of Operation Overlord. "Utah" (the code name for one of the landing sites) appeared in a puzzle on May 2, 1944. Subsequent puzzles included the landing site "Omaha" and "Mulberry"; the secret artificial harbors.

On June 2, four days before the invasion, the puzzle included both "Neptune" (the naval operations plan) and "Overlord". The author of the puzzles, a schoolteacher named Leonard Dawe, was interviewed. The investigators concluded that the appearance of the words was not an attempt to pass messages.

Ratings and reviews

When I got my new phone I was seriously bummed that I could no longer get Shortyz. This is a fabulous replacement and then some, absolutely worth the price without hesitation. I always felt that Shortyz should have charged something anyway. Here's to you for making this available! My undying gratitude for a very well made fork to that app. For anyone that's into crosswords and is hesitating about spending 3 whole dollars, don't be, it's worth it!

My favorite crossword app was discontinued several years ago. This app is its literal successor. Tons of customization options to make it perfectly fit your style of play, and tons of sources. I have long mourned the loss of Shortyz, but I am happy to pay for this app to bring it back into my life.

I like the app. it's clean and easy to play with a lot of puzzles. alas it won't load on either of my Boox devices so it's not going work for me. fix that and I'd gladly pay for the app again

What’s new

Initial Release v1.37