Best Cryptic Crosswords Apps &amp; Games

4.8😊(312 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

Engage with 300 professionally crafted cryptic crosswords designed for accessibility. Enjoy a smooth puzzle experience on your devices with features like zooming, landscape mode, and helpful tools.

What We Love

🚀 Great puzzles
👍 Enjoyable challenge
👍 Reasonably difficult
👍 User-friendly interface
👍 Good value for money

Room to Improve

🐛 Clues with barely any connection to answers
🐛 Repeated clues and answers
🐛 Lack of explanations for clues
🐛 In-app purchases required to unlock more puzzles

Crossword - by puzzling.com by AppyNation Ltd.

The World's Biggest Puzzle

Strong Contender

4.5😊(43K ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

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Engage your mind with a vast collection of crossword puzzles and word games. Solve thousands of clues, complete daily challenges, and collect trophies across multiple game modes. Enjoy a new puzzle experience every day with this extensive library of brain-teasing fun.

What We Love

👍 Entertaining and user-friendly
🧠 Educational and practical
🤔 Challenging but not too difficult
🕰️ Good for passing time

Room to Improve

💰 Tokens/coins required to play more puzzles
📺 Excessive ads that interrupt gameplay
🇬🇧 Some clues use British slang/terms
🔁 Repetitive use of same words in puzzles

Daily Cryptic - Solve & Learn by TF Daily

Cryptic Crosswords & Puzzles

Worth Considering

The intelligent crossword app

4.7(3 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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Learn to solve cryptic crosswords with daily clues, progressive hints, and step-by-step explanations. Build your skills through a structured learning series and practice with weekly crosswords and monthly prize challenges.

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Cryptic Crossword

Improve your word power

260+ professional cryptic crosswords29 free puzzlesPinch zooming grid

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Daily cryptic cluesBite-sized video explanationsHint system and letter reveals

Learn cryptic crosswords with a daily, handcrafted clue and a short video explanation. Features a hint system, progress tracking, and a beginner-friendly guide. Offers an optional membership for access to past clues, mini crosswords, and clue creation.

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Daily puzzles from major outletsError highlightingCustomizable settings

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Learn Cryptic Crosswords

Step-by-step clue explanationsInteractive exercisesPractice puzzles

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Daily new crossword puzzlesOver a thousand accessible puzzlesHint system for assistance

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Biggest single grid crosswords

The Big Crossword

Massive single-grid crosswordsOver 1300 clues per gridQuest mode with 80+ quests

Engage with massive, single-grid crossword puzzles featuring over 1300 clues. Choose between quest-based or classic modes, with helpful hints and a mini-grid to guide you. Sharpen your wits with cryptic clues in this challenging brain game.

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Penny Dell Jumbo Crosswords – Crossword Puzzles for Everyone!

by PuzzleNation

$4.99

Enjoy a vast collection of crossword puzzles with adjustable difficulty levels and unique alternate clues. This app offers helpful features like hints, smart navigation, and error checking to enhance your solving experience.

150+ crossword puzzlesAlternate clues includedEasy, Medium, and Hard difficulty

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Quick-style daily crosswords!

Astraware Crosswords

Daily quick-style crosswordsFree weekly larger puzzlesOffline puzzle packs

Enjoy daily crossword puzzles on the go with this app. It offers free daily and weekly puzzles, with options to purchase additional packs for offline play. A subscription unlocks all puzzles and removes ads.

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Puzzazz Crossword & Puzzle

Best UI + Sudoku, KenKen, more

Ad-free puzzle experienceDaily KenKen and Sudoku puzzlesFaithful NYT Crossword reproduction

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Crosswarped

Solve crosswords

Asymmetric puzzle designMultiple sizes and difficulty levelsHundreds of general-themed packs

Enjoy the satisfying challenge of solving American-style crosswords with varying sizes and difficulty levels. Explore general-themed puzzle packs or dive into niche topics with optional in-app purchases.

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Play three types of crossword

Crossword Unlimited

Unlimited custom crossword generationConfigurable grid size and difficultyThree crossword grid types (British, Barred, Arrow)

Enjoy an endless supply of custom-made crossword puzzles. Configure grid size, difficulty, and clue types to match your preferences. Save and reload games, and utilize helpful aids to solve challenging crosswords in multiple languages.

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Your Daily Dose of Wordplay

Fun With Crosswords

Multiple grid sizes (9x9, 13x13, 15x15)Progress tracking and statsInteractive 'How to Play' guide

Engage your mind with daily word puzzles. This app offers a clean interface with three grid sizes to suit your skill level, from quick brain boosts to seasoned solver challenges. Track your progress and enjoy a distraction-free puzzle experience.

Unlimited crossword minis

Unlimited mini crossword puzzlesReview previous puzzlesMonitor solving statistics

Enjoy an endless supply of free mini crossword puzzles. Track your progress with detailed statistics and revisit past challenges. This game is designed for quick, engaging mental workouts.