Comments on Crossword Unclued: Across Lite For Interactive Crosswords

The program writer would have used some letter suc...

2009-10-18T15:08:13.966+05:30

The program writer would have used some letter such as A or X or even a question mark in the slots instead of the real solutions.

You're right! I asked the program writer about this, he has confirmed that that's the way this was done.

Only persons with monumental patience would have regularly used the interactive version.

The interactive version is pretty good now. Except that login session times out too quickly, I have no complaints.

I don't remember that The Times crossword was ever...

2009-10-18T11:42:25.408+05:30

I don't remember that The Times crossword was ever available in AcrossLite format.
Yes, the paper did have an interactive version and I too used it occasionally in the late 1990s when the paper's crossword was available for free.
But it was very clunky: each time you put in a solution and pressed the Enter button, the page would refresh itself!
Only persons with monumental patience would have regularly used the interactive version.

I recall the crossword club at Orkut had templates...

2009-10-18T11:36:17.235+05:30

I recall the crossword club at Orkut had templates for converting the current day's ET puzzle into Across format. In the template, as far as I know the solutions were not available, only the clues.

The program writer would have used some letter such as A or X or even a question mark in the slots instead of the real solutions. (It is in such cases that the human intelligence masters the machine intelligence.)

If the program writer had not taken care to restrict the solution, the reveal or check button will be useless.

Hello Dsylexic. ...days when Time (uk) was a fre...

2009-10-15T12:15:16.288+05:30

Hello Dsylexic.

...days when Time (uk) was a free crossword and they had it in acrosslite format: This is news to me...thank you!

ah acrosslite.its been 10 years since i've used it...

2009-10-14T23:13:55.486+05:30

ah acrosslite.its been 10 years since i've used it! reminds me of the the days when Time (uk) was a free crossword and they had it in acrosslite format.i remember dec 25 1999 crossword with lots of charles dickens related clues!

@Shyam: Many American puzzles use in Across Lite f...

2009-10-14T20:57:49.527+05:30

@Shyam: Many American puzzles use in Across Lite format, notably the New York Times crossword.

@Chaturvasi: The congratulatory message took me by surprise, I saw live proof of it today when testing it before writing this post.

no crossword can be put in AcrossLite format without the solution: Is it so? I recall the crossword club at Orkut had templates for converting the current day's ET puzzle into Across format. In the template, as far as I know the solutions were not available, only the clues. Even ques#5 on this page suggests that it's possible for the puzzle to be created without the solutions. I'll check on this again.

To add to the above comment, no crossword can be p...

2009-10-14T20:28:17.838+05:30

To add to the above comment, no crossword can be put in AcrossLite format without the solution, whether its revelation is enabled or disabled.

While putting a puzzle in this format, if one wish...

2009-10-14T20:25:08.221+05:30

While putting a puzzle in this format, if one wishes to restrict the revelation of the solution, he can do so.
But puzzles put up online generally do not restrict the solution.
You needn't solve the puzzle at all. Drop down to Reveal Solution -Entire and the complete solution will appear.
Nothing surprising there. But what is surprising is that a congratulatory message will appear and you can pat yourself on the back.

Can you cite some sites which provide puzzles in t...

2009-10-14T18:00:27.220+05:30

Can you cite some sites which provide puzzles in this format?