Clean Crosswords User Reviews

Name: Clean Crosswords
Rating: 4.5 (1926 reviews)

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Customer Experience

Positive experience65.6% of reviews

Neutral14.1% of reviews

Negative experience20.3% of reviews

~ Based on 241 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Clean Crosswords. Based on 1.9K reviews and a 4.5/5 average, it highlights the 5 positives and 5 negatives reviewers mention most about this game.

Positive things

👍Challenging puzzles
🧠Helps improve vocabulary and memory
🗓️Lots of puzzles available
🎨Clean and intuitive interface
💰Free app with optional ad-free version

Negative things

🇬🇧Too many British-centric references and spellings
🔁Repetitive clues and answers
🐛Crashes and freezes
📢Intrusive ads in free version
🕹️Navigation and layout issues on larger screens

Is Clean Crosswords Safe?

Clean Crosswords appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Clean Crosswords is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 1,926 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.8% of ratings point to a safe experience

6.4% of ratings suggest some concerns

4.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,926 App Store ratings for Clean Crosswords.

Is Clean Crosswords Legit?

Clean Crosswords appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Clean Crosswords is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Goldilocks Crossword

Not too easy - nor too hard

Llanrwst man

7 months ago

New words

Please use more modern and daily life words , out of date words are not informative

rezdad1404

10 months ago

Excellent

Very well put together puzzles

Debbie Dukes

a year ago

Better than most

This has a wide selection. But the popup ads, while necessary for a free app, are annoying; they were few at first but are now quite frequent. Also, many british expressions that we north-americans struggle to guess...i.e. “brolly” for umbrella. 4/5.

Second opinion: definitely more british than north-american…some words I’ve never heard…

Shortpine

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Shortpine, thank you for updating your review, we are thrilled to hear that you are still enjoying our game. Thank you also for sharing your feedback- we must assume you read the description before downloading our game, but in it we are very clear that our editorial team is British, and that our puzzles are written in "classic British English"- and as you've confirmed, we deliver exactly that. We hope that you will continue to enjoy Clean Crosswords, and we hope that you will consider updating your review.

Doesn’t work

I enjoyed this game for a while but it suddenly stopped working. I’ve deleted and reloaded without success. I cannot get through to the app support. Don’t bother

Gingerboysmum

3 years ago

Clean crossword

Always enjoy this crossword if I get stuck can find the answer and check my mistakes. Better now with no ads

Dave the eagle

3 years ago

Clean crossword failure

New format for a few days. Now all I get is a blank dark grey screen.
Some up grade!

ibtjs

3 years ago

Atrocious

Whoever sets these crosswords, English cannot be their first language. So many words are made up, many are Americanisms .the clues are so badly written as to be completely obscure - and not in a good way!
I’m sick and tired of this stupid game. I’ve no idea what theythink the definitions are but they certainly are not correct. It’s like a 12 year old, badly educated foreigner has compiled them! Do better!

fiddlergal

3 years ago

Educational

Excellent crossword, especially for semiliterate people like me. I may know the answer to a clue but my spelling is incorrect. I learn as I play this application.

Michand2

4 years ago

Spelling

Please note that the capital city of New South Wales in Australia is Sydney, not Sidney. I know it’s not life changing but still pretty annoying.

Syd*P

4 years ago

Poor quality crosswords

Even the difficult level is not too hard. Some of the puzzles are incomplete - e.g. missing black squares. Many, many reused clues. At least twice the answer to questions relating to the Australian city were “Sidney” though a further puzzle included the correct spelling. Also, though British focussed in subject matter, often answers are in American spellings, e.g. “odor”.

notlikethecheese

4 years ago

Solve a clue get an ad! Really?

cross with puzzle

4 years ago

Great app - hours of fun and learning!

As of yesterday, I finished all the puzzles. While I don’t know for sure how long I’ve had the app, I know it’s provided me with hours and hours of fun and learning. I wish there was a way to refresh/start over with the puzzles or to download a new set of puzzles. I like that I can do as few or many puzzles whenever I want, not dependent on a “daily” puzzle delivery, and I like that there are options to check my work as I go. The app almost never “froze.” Would I download this again? Yes!

GatewayDi

4 years ago

Okay, but…UPDATE TO 4-STAR

UPDATE: I appreciate that the developer has responded. I didn’t understand the % solved part very well. Thank you for clarification. And I appreciate that the developer has not dismissed the need to have the game automatically fit to various screen sizes.
PREVIOUS 3-STAR REVIEW:
I’ve solved 8 puzzles so far but it tells me: 0% solved so far. What gives? Also, the puzzle needs to fit to horizontally to the iPad Air 4 screen. It’s two columns short of fitting the screen in portrait position.

ConLorMar

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi ConLorMar, thank you for sharing your feedback. The 'solves so far' figure is specific to the current puzzle- if you've just completed the last puzzle, you've completed 0% of the current puzzle. We've worked hard on making our app enjoyable for all of our users with many different devices with many different size screens, and will continue to improve how we use the screen space while still keeping the text legible in the future. We hope that you will continue to enjoy Clean Crosswords and we hope that you will reconsider your rating.

Clean Crosswords

Enjoy my word game to keep my mind sharp and enjoy the challenge.Thank you
SwattyDimps

worldlywordsmith

4 years ago

Becoming unplayable

Some ads now filling and blocking the screen with no way to advance. Screen just freezes.

Barry UK

4 years ago

Halva isn’t Oriental!!

The game is alright, been playing it prettily consistently the past couple of months.

The one thing that keeps getting me is how bad some of the clues are that really don’t make sense to the answers. The worst one I’ve seen just happened there. Clue reads “Oriental sweet” to which the answer is “Halva” which is Middle Eastern. I know it’s in Asia but come on!

This game could be so much better if someone else was in charge of the clues.

JustJosh789

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi JustJosh789, thank you for taking the time to review our app. We appreciate your strong opinions on our content, but we do invite you to practice a moment of reflexivity and look up the subject of your concern. We hope that you will continue to enjoy Clean Crosswords, we welcome and further feedback that you might have for us, and we certainly do hope that you will reconsider your rating.