Sympathy helps you create professional quality crosswords for publication in print form or on the web. It has a wealth of construction and filling features to aid the compiler; its flexibility in grid drawing and puzzle layout will appeal to crossword publishers.

Sympathy creates US style Fully Checked and Diagramless crosswords, as well as Blocked and Barred cryptic crosswords. Completed puzzles can be printed directly, or exported in a variety of formats for publication in paper form. Sympathy can also output crosswords as HTML, with grids in bitmap formats such as JPEG and PNG for web publication.

The screen shot above shows a cryptic clue being edited in Sympathy's Puzzle View. The one below shows a partially constructed US style crossword in Grid View:

Compiling a US style crossword puzzle

This product is available in two versions: Sympathy Crossword Construction is the full version for crossword compilers. Sympathy Crossword Publisher is the 'lite' version for crossword publishers; solvers also find it useful for recreating puzzle grids, either entering answers directly into Sympathy or using its printed output.

For further information about this feature-rich crossword generator for Windows, see:

Sympathy Feature List - a detailed list of the functions in each version
Sympathy Gallery - lots of example grids created with Sympathy
Sympathy Tutorial - illustrates how to make different types of crossword
Crosswords - puzzles compiled using Sympathy for you to try

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TEA and Sympathy Bundle

TEA Crossword Helper and Sympathy Crossword Construction can be purchased together for a significantly reduced price: select the Sympathy Crossword Construction With TEA Crossword Helper option on the Sympathy order page.

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