Daily free crosswords how to#

Your score displays at the top of the puzzle. If you're really fast at crosswords, you may be able to get a positive score on this free daily crossword puzzle. This button clears the crossword grid so you can start the same crossword over again. Click this button if at any point you want to restart the current free daily crossword puzzle. To revert back to showing errors, click the Show Errors button. Incorrect letters or words will appear in black just like correct entries, so you won't be alerted to your mistakes. To make the puzzle more challenging, click the Hide Errors button. By default any incorrect letters or words appear red in the grid. ALL the answers display in the daily crossword. Had enough but want to learn the answers for the clues that stumped you? Click the Solve Puzzle button. The answer appears in the highlighted part of the puzzle grid. Stumped by a clue but don't want to forfeit the puzzle? Click the Solve Word button. The highlighted square will display the correct letter. Are you a terrible speller but want to solve crossword puzzles anyway? When you are sure you've got the right answer but have misspelled a letter in the word, click the Solve Letter button at the bottom of this free daily crossword puzzle. They are one big reason online crossword puzzles can be more fun to solve than printed crosswords. These features are only possible with online crosswords. This free daily crossword puzzle has several built-in, online features you'll find quite useful. More Useful Features of this Free Daily Crossword

Similarly, clicking a clue in the Across or Down list highlights the squares on the crossword grid where the answer goes. Clicking a location in the crossword puzzle grid highlights the clue in the Across or Down list. The crossword grid and the clues are linked visually for convenience. Letters appear in the grid as capitals automatically. QUICK TIP: There's no need to turn on CAPS LOCK. This opens a pop-up window with the list of the mouse clicks and keystrokes.

Daily free crosswords how to#

To view the list of mouse and keyboard commands for this free daily crossword puzzle, click the How to Solve link at the bottom of the puzzle. Then type the word convertible: C O N V E R T I B L E. To enter your answer, click the 44 square in the crossword grid. When not working on a puzzle, David can be found reading his favorite daily comic strips.You also notice there are 11 squares available for the answer, which matches the length of that word. Additionally, David is a frequent attendee of crossword puzzle conventions and a respected tournament judge. He is the founder and director of the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, a collaborative effort to build a digitized, searchable database of New York Times crossword puzzles dating back to 1942. David is also the author of two books of crosswords: Chromatics (Puzzazz, 2012) and Juicy Crosswords (Sterling/Puzzlewright Press, 2016). He was most recently the editor of The Puzzle Society Crossword. To date, David has had hundreds of puzzles published in the Times and other markets (Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Daily Celebrity Crossword, The Crosswords Club, The American Values Club Crossword, BuzzFeed and The Jerusalem Post). At the age of 15, David became the crossword editor of the Orange County Register's 24 affiliated newspapers. David Steinberg published his first crossword puzzle in The New York Times when he was just 14 years old, making him the second-youngest constructor to be published under Will Shortz's editorship.