Make your own crossword puzzles with the Crossword Maker! This easy-to-use tool allows you to provide your own questions and answers list and create custom crosswordes in minutes. You can then download and print them instantly. So get creative and have some fun!
Crossword Spin is an online puzzle maker that allows you to create crossword puzzles for free! This is perfect for teachers and students or anyone who wants to practice their vocabulary and problem solving skills.
You can create a challenging and fun crossword puzzle within minutes. This super simple, fast, and easy to use online crossword maker will help keep your audience entertained for hours.
Using our online puzzle maker is easy! Just enter in the words and clues that you want, and our software will generate a crossword puzzle for you. You can then print it out or share it with your friends online.
How do you create custom Crossword Puzzles?
It’s easy! Just provide your word list and the Crossword Puzzle Maker will create a puzzle for you.
- Enter the word to be revealed, add colon(:) as separator and then add your question or clue for that word (word:clue)
- Choose the clue font size, font family and the puzzle grid size.
- Select the layout. Some layouts also support images and you can choose the image from the library.
- Click on the blue “Generate New” button to generate your custom puzzle.
- If you wish to use pre-made puzzles, just click on the green “download” button.
- Make sure not to use any personal information if you want your puzzles added to our database.
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Instructions
Choose up to 3 fonts + Arial (default)
Show the Word Bank?
— This is (and always has been) an option in the blue menu after your puzzle is created.
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Use the words: (Note: This text is editable on the puzzle! Just click it!)
Across/Down
Horizontal/Vertical
The crossword maker makes it possible to create a 20-words crossword on based on words/clues provided by the user or generated from our database.
The generated crossword can then be saved as a PDF or PNG file. Created crosswords are also suitable for printing.
In addition, it is possible to create a puzzle where all the words must be found in the diagram with random letters.
To generate a crossword you need to:
1Enter (or generate automatically) words and clues to be included in the crossword
2Generate the crossword
3Download crossword, key and/or the puzzle.
1 Words & clues
Enter words and clues or generate them using the button below. Generate words and clues
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2 Crossword creation
Generate the crossword using the button below. You can generate a crossword several times to choose the best layout.
After entering each word, the system will check the corresponding clues from the WordNet database. If the word has several definitions, additional buttons (1-9) will appear, pressing them will display other clues corresponding to the given word. Create crossword
3 Saving and downloading the crossword
If the crossword was generated correctly, one can print it or download it as a PDF or PNG file.
Additionally, a puzzle can be generated from the crossword, there all the words are shown, but they must be found in the diagram among random letters. Download the crossword (PDF) Download the solved crossword (PDF) Download the puzzle (PDF)
It is also possible to save the crossword as a PNG image file using the buttons below. Download the crossword (PNG) Download the solved crossword (PNG) Download the puzzle (PNG)
Additional information
The crossword maker uses words and clues from the Wordnet database created by Princeton University. See https://wordnet.princeton.edu/license-and-commercial-use for more information and license terms.
The crossword puzzle maker
To create a crossword puzzle, you need to have at least two words since the words need to be ‘crossed’. From that point on you can create more intersections between words and expand your puzzle grid. Luckily, the crossword algorithm does all that hard thinking for us! 
Adding words revolved around a theme is a very logical and a nice choice to make sure your words cross in context as well as visually
Adding a hidden solution
A nice way to give your crossword puzzle another dimension is to add a ‘hidden solution’
The hidden solution can be anything you like and is marked in the field as cells with a specific background color. The characters of the hidden solution need to be collected by the user by filling in correct answers across the crossword puzzle field.
This can be used for competitions like selecting prize winners, but of course just having another small puzzle within a puzzle and enjoying the fun is reason enough :).
Answer control is automated
Checking answers is no longer required! The system does this automatically for you and shows the crossword puzzle player whenever their given answer is correct.
If you do not like this feature, there is the Premium option to ‘Disable answer control’ as well.
And lastly, Premium allows you to ‘Reload given answers’ automatically. This way puzzle players can finish their puzzle in multiple sessions if needed.
Creating an answer key
To give yourself an easy way to help other puzzle players, you can enable the ‘Answer key’ mode on your puzzle owner panel.
This is only available to you and can be turned on/off via the ‘Eye’-icon at the top-right of your puzzle preview.
Both the blank version and the answer key version are available for printing as well.
Crossword maker with pictures
Besides adding pure text crosswords, you can use your media files as well to make different kinds of crossword puzzles.
Images are a nice way to give hints/descriptions as well and allows different kinds of questions since you now have an image to hint the puzzle player towards the answer.
This can activated via the Premium ‘Type of crossword’ option, and choose ‘Image’ there.
Adding a word bank
To make the puzzles a bit easier, you can now also add in the Premium ‘Word Bank’ option. This allows the crossword puzzle player to select an answer from all of the answers within the puzzle.
The word bank pops up once a player select a cell within the crossword puzzle grid, since at that point the puzzle understands where the user would like to insert the selected answer.
Creating your own look
The crossword puzzle maker allows all kinds of cool Premium custom styling options which give the puzzle any look you like. You can hide all of the black squares for example, which looks more clean and when printing, saves quite a bit of ink!
Adding background images
Or you can go even wilder, and change the background of the black squares of your crossword puzzle to create a brand, theme or other look that you prefer.
Play your crossword puzzle in teams
To create even more fun interactions with your crossword puzzle, try out the ‘Play in teams’ feature on the Premium-tab. It sets up team registrations and once you start the team battle, it will connect all of the team members.
Every time a team member enters a correct answer in the crossword puzzle, it will synchronise this given answer with the rest of the team so that you can finish the puzzle together.
Extra cool is the team dashboard that you have as the crossword puzzle owner, via the Premium > ‘Open Control room’. There you can see the progress of each team and monitor who finishes first!
Changing the questions layout
If your website or the player does not have a lot of horizontal space on their screen, then it might be a good fit to change the layout of the crossword puzzle. This can be done via the ‘Questions position’ option on the Premium-tab.
This can be switched to either ‘Right’ (default), ‘Bottom’ and even ‘Hidden’. When you hide the question list, the active question will still pop up when you select a crossword puzzle cell, so this can be real efficient way to embed your puzzle!
The manual crossword builder
The manual crossword builder allows you to surpass the automated capabilities of the crossword generator.
Instead of generating the words in a random grid, you can pick the locations and intersections yourself, creating tight, extra professional looking crossword puzzles.
You can enter the manual crossword maker via the black and white human head icon (and switch back to the crossword generator in the same way)
Cryptic crossword generator
The cryptic crossword clues are not generated for you automatically, but of course you can create your own cryptic crossword puzzle with the ‘regular’ crossword puzzle generator
Add hints that can be interpreted in multiple ways, think of small word jokes or find words which contain the exact same letters as other words and create an anagram clue.
Cryptic crossword puzzles are super cool and fun to solve. They are the origin of why I created Puzzel.org in the first place!
Check out the sample puzzle
Discover how this puzzle type looks in practice by viewing and playing the sample puzzle (opens in a new tab)
