The Across line of products provides a complete solution to creating, solving, publishing and distributing crossword puzzles online as well as on paper. Across Lite is the first in line with several exciting products to follow and it is free for personal use! Across Lite is used for distributing more crosswords online than any other program. Links to puzzle sites for Across Lite is maintained in our puzzle gallery.
Year 2000 compliance statement
Across
Lite is a program for solving crossword puzzles online and is available
as a native implementation on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, IBM OS/2 and several
Unix platforms (see list of supported platforms).
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- Works as a helper application with browsers in all supported platforms making downloading crossword puzzles to solve them as easy as a mouse click.
- Uses a common puzzle file format across all platforms. Designed bottom-up for online distribution, the format is extremely compact (2-4K per puzzle) and contains several checksums to detect tampering or corruption during transfers.
- Provides the most intuitive and easy-to-use interface for solving online or prints a beautifully formatted copy of the puzzle for solving offline.
A complimentary copy of the latest released version of this program is always made available here for personal use (see included license for details).
Download a copy of the current release version for any of the supported
platforms.
The product line includes several advanced products for solving, creating and publishing crosswords with state-of-the-art technology. Watch this space for exciting announcements.
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