From Newsgroup: rec.puzzles.crosswords
On 12/02/2025 17:58, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:
I need software for generating cryptics (British-style crosswords) on
Linux platforms. My goal is to generate and print the puzzles on
standard sheets of paper.
Anything related to this would possibly be useful to me even if it
doesn't do the whole job. Even tools that do bits and pieces may help.
1a) Worst crispy cod heartless customer ordered for challenge (7,9)
6d) See 6d) (4,11)
9d) Oil-bearing ordered to DIY (2,8)
11d) Chews puce to make better puzzles (6,3)
Whenever I think (as I do, from time to time) of cutting code to
generate cryptic clues, I quench the notion by re-reading
Shakespeare's "A Lover's Complaint" (1609). The whole thing,
really, but especially this:
"O then advance of yours that phraseless hand
Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;
Take all these similes to your own command..."
--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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