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• Standard Puzzle Types
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Standard Puzzle Types

This section illustrates the types of puzzles most commonly created with Sympathy Crossword Construction. Click on the small grids to see a larger image in a popup window.

Fully Checked	Blocked	Barred
Diagramless	Jumbo	Italian Style

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Thematic Fills

Sympathy Crossword Construction supports many different treatments popular in thematic or "variety" puzzles. Some of these examples were filled using Sympathy's built-in gimmicks, some by seeding the grid with letters or words before filling and some using multiple dictionary filling. Click on the small grids to see a larger image in a popup window.

Alphabetical Jigsaw	Pattern fill (across answers start and end with same pair of letters)	Common theme (the seven deadly sins)
Anagram dictionary fill (answers can be anagrammed into other common words)	Multiple dictionary fill (across answers all films)	Substitution cipher (across answers encoded using key phrase "Judgment of Paris")
4 Playfair encoded answers (keyword lexicography)	Misprints (across answers misprinted from "Thou art not so unkind" to "William Shakespeare")	Letters Latent fill (message "the course of true love never did run smooth")

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Exceptional Fills

Sympathy Crossword Construction's outstanding filling performance allows you to create highly constrained grids in a reasonable time. All the examples below were filled using a 240,732 entry word list commonly used to create barred cryptic crosswords. Click on the small grids to see a larger image in a popup window.

Chambers Single 8 Square	58 Answer Checked 15x15	20 Answer Blocked 15x15
24 Answer Barred 12x12	11x12 Word Diamond	12x12 Double Word Triangle

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