Designing a small crossword with KrossWordPuzzle
Posted by Esben Mose Hansen
I took up the Mr. Pülz's challenge of designing a crossword with in-cell clues in KrossWordPuzzle. This turned out to be a challenge for me, but fortunately I had help from some great resources. One was OneAcross which is a great crossword dictionary. I don't hold with using them to solve crosswords, but for designing them it was really helpful. The other great resources were, of course, Wikipedia and it's sister Wiktionary. Thank you all three, I could not have done it without you.
Speaking of help, the 0.8.2. version is much nicer to work with than the 0.8.1, so if you are going to design puzzles, go with that. For one thing, it is now possible to have one-letter solutions (yay! essential in that style). I also had a brush with a bug fixed in 0.8.2, namely the crash when working at the very edge of the crossword. It was the last clue... and then it crashed. Eeek! Fortunately, the error recovery was smooth. Whew!
One thing that did not pan out so great was that only one clue/cell is supported. If you solve my puzzle, you'll note that there is a few places where one horizontal and one vertical clue in one cell would be in order. Actually, you often see 3 clues in one cell. I also really missed being able to edit the clue and the length of the solution. Please, please, could we have this?
Finally, without any more begging or bitching: TheEsben 1st crossword puzzle. A small 8x8 beauty. Please tell me if you solve it :) And no cheating, naughty you!
