Crossword Puzzle Book, 300 Crosswords

Clues written by people, for this crossword puzzle book

We wrote every clue in this crossword puzzle book ourselves, in plain American English. The answers are everyday words, with no names, brands or places, so you won’t get stuck on a 1970s TV actor or a river in a country you’ve never heard of. And no answer repeats within a level, so working through all 100 Easy puzzles won’t mean writing the same word every few pages.

It’s a hyperlinked PDF, not a paperback. You open it on an e-ink tablet and write your letters into the squares with a stylus. If a guess turns out wrong, erase it and the printed grid is still there. There’s no printing involved.

Three levels of crossword

• Easy: about a dozen everyday words of 3 to 6 letters, with plain definitions as clues.
• Medium: about 11 words of 5 to 8 letters.
• Hard: about 10 longer words of 7 to 10 letters, with tougher vocabulary.

There are 100 crosswords at each level. The puzzles are on the smaller side compared with a big weekend newspaper grid, which makes them a good fit for a lunch break or a few minutes before bed. One crossword, one page, finished.

Each page has the grid across the top and the numbered Across and Down clues underneath, so you don’t flip back and forth. A Choose difficulty page opens a list for each level with a tick box beside every crossword, so you can keep track of where you are. A breadcrumb at the top of each page takes you back a step, and arrows move you to the next or previous puzzle. When you want to check your work, the small Answer link in the corner opens the answers at the back, listed by number for Across and Down. The answer’s number links back to its puzzle.

There’s a How to play page at the front if you’d like a refresher. The file is drawn at each tablet’s own page size and comes for Supernote, reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, BOOX, Kobo, Quaderno and iPad, priced at $9 on every tablet.