Crossword Gallery

This page shows many example crossword grids that were produced with Sympathy Crossword Construction. There are also some complete non-cryptic crosswords and cryptic crosswords.

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

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")

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

Non-Cryptic Crosswords

Word-Cross by Arthur Wynne
The world's first crossword puzzle

Flower Girls by Beetlejuice
A US-style thematic crossword with definition-only clues

Working Lunch by Beetlejuice
Test your knowledge of food and drink with this quiz-style puzzle

Unix Down The Ages by Arcturus
A thematic puzzle with a US style grid and clues

Cryptic Crosswords

Cryptic Crossword by Beetlejuice
A plain cryptic puzzle in the style of a UK broadsheet paper

Movie Mania by Beetlejuice
A cryptic crossword with a cinematic theme

Scintillating by Beetlejuice
A thematic cryptic crossword using the Letters Latent gimmick

Playfair Crossword by Beetlejuice
A cryptic crossword using the Playfair gimmick

Cryptic Crossword by Hellebore
A plain cryptic puzzle in the style of a UK broadsheet paper

Six in One by Arcturus
A thematic barred cryptic puzzle originally published by The Crossword Club

Crossword Gallery

Standard Puzzle Types

Thematic Fills

Exceptional Fills

Non-Cryptic Crosswords

Cryptic Crosswords