crossword solver
Grid puzzle devotee
A crossword solver is a person who works crossword puzzles, or software that helps find words matching a pattern of known and unknown letters.
The human sense emphasizes the hobby: She's an avid crossword solver who finishes the Sunday puzzle in ink.
The tool sense refers to apps or websites where you enter partial words to find matches: I used a crossword solver to figure out the five-letter word for "ancient Greek marketplace".
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- daily puzzleRecurring challenge refreshed each day
- New York TimesMajor American broadsheet
- cluesHints toward answers
- anagramReshuffled letter word
grid · black squares · hints · letters · wordplay · pencil · newspaper · cryptic · blanks · fill in the blanks · squares · across · down · dictionary · thesaurus · brainstorm · mental exercise · stumped
- language referencesdictionary, thesaurus, dictionaries, glossary, lexicon
- playersathlete, player, competitor, gamer, participant
- puzzlerspuzzle master, brainteasers, brain-teasers, conundrums, enigmas
- solvertroubleshooter, decoder, algorithm, formula, answer key
- crosswordsacross, cryptic, acrostic, clues, codeword
- word loverslogophile, logophiles, wordsmith, wordsmiths, wordmonger