Crossword Dictionary

This is the first dictionary (that I know of) to define words in a truly contemporary sense. Rather than rehashing traditional definitions and excluding words not considered legitimate by academics and purists, NOAD defines words as people use them in everyday speech. It also includes hundreds of new words and acronyms which have come into the language in the last several years.

Here are the helpful books that every crossword puzzle solver needs whether they're a novice or a seasoned pro. However, newbies beware! Crossword puzzles can be habit-forming and very time consuming. Happy puzzling!

A great addition to the cruciverbalist's reference library. This resource, which was 65 years in the making, spent many years looking for a publisher to no avail, as it contains over a million words and would require some 6,000 pages of printed text. Fortunately, the digital age has come to the rescue and it can now be placed on a single CD.

Customized for specific types of word games- crosswords, anagrams, jumbles, and Scrabble.® Good resource for constructors.

If yew knead a homonym, hear's a grate plaice to fined won. Bee shore two bookmark this sight.

All types of music covered as well as a glossary and music 'maps' (roots of various styles). Search by artist, album title, song title, etc.

Finds words from 3-20 letters long. Multi-lingual search also available.

Probably the most powerful anagram generator currently available on the market. It costs about $40 US but as they say, "The best things in life are NOT free." Visit the site and get a chuckle even if you don't order the product.

Enter a word or phrase and this search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase. Over 3,300 indexed.

A crossword helper that does wild-card searches, lists anagrams, finds possible Scrabble entries and includes dictionary and thesaurus look ups.

Another 'wild card' word finder for solvers. Substitute a period (.) for unknown letters.

Lists words of various length as well as terms from the Bible, mythology, ancient history, etc.

This engine finds only single English words (not phrases, names, or proper nouns) and it only supports words up to 10 letters long.

This dictionary/gazetteer is the digital eqivalent of over 6,000 pages. Search/browse to find rivers, cities, languages, coins, measures, VIPs and more. Includes Nobel Prize/Academy Award winners, Shakespeare, and foreign language content.

Described as the world's first multilingual electronic journal of paremiology, it aims to publish studies and collections of proverbs in some of the main languages of the world.

Lynn Nelson produced this wordlist to help students read Medieval Latin. He warns that it is only a list and not a dictionary.

This program allows you to search for relationships between words and concepts that might never have occurred to you before. From Doug Beeferman.

Tons of lyrics including "Top 40 Hits of 1930-1999", "#1 Songs of 1930-1999", "Top Singles by Decade" and "Artist Collections". Browse by song title or artist.

An online crossword solving program from Duke University researchers. Enter the clue and the search pattern and chances are it'll find the answer.

From Tufts University, an evolving digital library of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.

Besides finding rhymes, you can use this tool to find synonyms, homophones, related words, etc. From Doug Beeferman who also maintains Lexical FreeNet (http://www.lexfn.com).

This engine allows you to search for words containing certain letter strings.

A major breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence? Find out more about this great new learning tool from Genius 2000.

Handy anagram generator for crossword solvers and Scrabble players. Includes a customizable option menu.

Will Weiss has released Version 2 of The Crossworders' Dictionary & Gazetteer, a valuable resource for puzzle solvers and creators.

Need to know who starred in "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"? You can ketchup on all the details at this incredibly comprehensive site. Search by title, cast, year, plot or goofs. Wow!

Search by clue or by pattern.

A wealth of information on the countries of the world. Includes maps, demographic profiles, major industries, etc. Courtesy of the CIA.

This site allows you to search for keywords, phrases, names, etc., in many different versions of the Bible. Handy for doing those puzzles with Biblical quotes or creating your own Bible crosswords.

This multi-featured thesaurus/dictionary can help you solve crosswords. Contains 160,000 words. Free demo version. Developed by Antony Lewis, author of Crossword Compiler.