Shows wordplay types you can use to clue an answer in a cryptic crossword: anagrams; reversal; charades; container and contents; head, middle, tail and ends deletion; alternation; substitution. Links to extensive lists of indicators for wordplay types and abbreviations. Saves time and improves cryptic clue quality by suggesting treatments you might not think of. Includes English language word list with over 250,000 entries.

Sympathy helps you prepare crosswords for publication in print form or on the web. Its highly flexible grid drawing and puzzle layout options allow you to create US style fully checked, diagramless, blocked, Italian style and barred grid puzzles. Print crosswords directly. Export crosswords for publication in print form. Export crosswords as HTML, with the grid in HTML or bitmap formats such as JPEG and PNG, for inclusion in a web site.

TEA is a crossword puzzle solver with over a million words and phrases. It finds crossword answers; solves anagram clues; helps with other word games such as Scrabble and Countdown. Letter variables help solve cryptograms and find words with unusual properties such as palindromes; punctuation matching finds phrases and hyphenated words. The integrated dictionary and thesaurus includes over 190,000 definitions and 130,000 citations.

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 supports US style fully checked, diagramless, blocked and barred grid puzzles. Completed crosswords can be printed directly, or exported in a variety of formats for publication.

Make long words from the heap of letter tiles at the bottom of the board. While you are doing this, new tiles are being added at an ever-increasing rate. When the tiles reach the top of the board, the round ends and you lose a life; but you earn a new life for every 2000 points you score. This addictive game should appeal to anyone who enjoys board games like Scrabble and Boggle or the Channel 4 program Countdown.