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Cross99 let you print out crossword puzzles nicely on a piece of paper. Currently Cross99 supports crossword puzzles from The New York Times and from USA Today. Cross99 also supports the crossword puzzles in Across Lite format in general.

To use Cross99, you first need download puzzle files from the internet. USA Today lets download for free and without registration. But for The New York Times you need to register and to pay a yearly fee of $9.9.

If you have internet connection you can click on the addresses displayed on Cross99, which will launch a browser to the place where you can download puzzle files. After you have downloaded puzzle files, click on the Load Puzzle link on Cross99 to load the puzzle and you will be able to print out the puzzle on paper.

Cross99 let you have some choice in terms of how do you want puzzles be printed under the menu choice of Settings->Print Preference. You can choose colors that fill the block in grid. You also have choice of placing the grid on the right or left side of paper.

Cross99 let you view or print solution to a crossword puzzle under the menu choice of Tool->View Solution. You should always be able to view or print solutions for puzzles from USA Today. But for the puzzle from The New York Times,  if it is the current day puzzle, you will only see some scrambled non-sense in solution. The New York Times puts out unscrambled puzzle file in the following day.

Cross99 is not a crossword player program, which means it does not let you play crossword puzzles on your computer. Both The New York Times and USA Today have their own crossword player program available on their sites for download and for free.

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Cross99 is a freeware which means you can use it for free.


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Cross99 supports crossword puzzles in Across Lite format. The Across Lite format is the most popular crossword puzzle format and most of crossword puzzles on the internet are in Across Lite format.

Cross99 also supports the text format used by Literate Software System.

 Cross99 supports crossword puzzles of size up to 21x21, due to the limitation of paper size.

Cross99 supports the so called "drag and drop" operation, in which you open/load a puzzle file by simply dragging a puzzle file and dropping it into Cross99's window area.

Cross99 supports silent mode operation, in which you can issue a command from the DOS prompt to let Cross99 to print a puzzle. The syntax for the command line is:

Cross99 /p fileName


Literate Software System

Cross99 supports crossword puzzles in Across Lite format. The Across Lite format is the most popular crossword puzzle format.

Across Lite is the name of a fully functional crossword puzzle player program from Literate Software System. It is also the official player program for the crossword puzzles from The New York Times.

You can download Across Lite from http://www.litsoft.com as well as from the site in The New York Times.