Foolscap: Mini Crossword

A crossword that actually fits in a hand. Five squares across at the start, seven at the top of the ladder — never the fifteen-square newspaper grid that turns into a smudge on a phone.

Tap a square and the word you are in lights up, with its clue under the board and the keyboard under that. Tap the same square again to switch between the across word and the down one. Everything you need is on one screen, so you never leave the grid to read a clue and lose the letters you were holding in your head.

Every letter belongs to two words at once. That is the whole trick of a crossword and it is why a small one still has teeth: a letter you are sure of hands you the start of something else, and a word you cannot get often falls out of the one crossing it.

The clues are definitions, not cryptic wordplay — no anagram tricks, no hidden abbreviations, nothing you need a style guide to parse. Every answer is ordinary English that passed through both a frequency list and a curated common-word list, so you will not meet a genus of bird or a three-letter acronym where a word should be.

Unlimited undo and a hint that fills one square inside the word you are working on, rather than somewhere across the board. No timer, no lives, no way to lose. Works offline, and there is a new crossword every day.

Clue definitions come from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.

Recent changes:
Fixes a bug that could take you out of a level after an ad. Smoother play.