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Crossdown is a professional crossword puzzle development application. Use it to construct real crosswords just like the kind which appear in newspapers and magazines. With Crossdown's many features, routine tasks and errors are eliminated, leaving you to concentrate on creating entertaining and original puzzles. This latest version of Crossdown includes Crossdown Librarian and Crossdown Cluebank. Librarian is a crossword puzzle database manager with which you can group any number of crosswords into collections for quick browsing, comparison, searching, duplicating and dozens of other uses. Crossdown Cluebank is a database for storing crossword puzzle clues. It is fully integrated with Crossdown, enabling you to bring up a list of clues to choose from for each grid entry, or "automatically" clue the entire puzzle with one click of the mouse. With Crossdown you can print crosswords in a variety of styles, and export puzzles in several popular graphic file formats for use with all word processors and desktop publishing software. You can deploy fully interactive crosswords to websites. You can generate puzzles as Adobe PDF files for distribution among other computer platforms, including Macintosh systems. You can also generate standalone puzzle "player" game applications which can be run and solved on other Windows-based computers. Crossdown also incorporates a basic solve mode so puzzle authors can test out their own creations, or just have a little fun! Crossdown is developed by a crossword puzzle professional for other crossword puzzle professionals or serious amateurs. Crossdown supports all versions of Windows from XP to 95, and has an indexed, illustrated on-screen Help.