Classic Crossword Puzzles

A fair number of puzzles available for free. Gotta watch ads to get to them, but my adblocker lets me bypass them. Puzzles are all roughly equivalent to the NYT Monday or Tuesday puzzle difficulty, though there are more repeated clues from puzzle to puzzle on this app than in the Times. No pencil mode. It doesn't skip letters you've already typed either. And the arrows to move between clues don't proceed onward from where you place the cursor by tapping. They jump the cursor to the next place on from where you last brought the cursor using the arrow keys. So don't bother with the arrows, they're more of a hassle than they're worth. Honestly even with all those little complaints, this is one of the best free crossword apps I've ever used. I would prefer good puzzles over all those other features, and even though they're too easy for me, they're fun little time-wasters. If I had to deal with the ads though, it’d be a 2 star.

I like the puzzle except for the fact that the highlights move around in the middle of putting in a guess. I highlight down and it changes into across while I am putting in the word. Then I have to erase the errors. Sometimes it changes another entry

Overall, I like the app, utilize it daily and did upgrade to the ad-free version but there are some issues: 1) If you utilize coins for “See Wrong” and you leave the puzzle to start another and then go back, the “See Wrong” disappears, so you may have spent your coins for naught. 2) It would be helpful if when you utilize coins for 4 Letters that those letters are highlighted in some way, confirming that they are correct. If there are certain answers I may not know, it is helpful to know which letters have been confirmed to attempt to finish the puzzle. 2) It would be great to have an option to select between across or down in terms of automatically moving to the next word, currently very cumbersome to try to toggle. 3) By paying for the ad-free version, I thought that there would be additional puzzles or puzzle packs added routinely but there is a finite amount excluding the daily puzzle. I will not be renewing my subscription once the annual period is up as I will have completed all (or substantially all) the puzzles by then. 4) I have also experienced where a puzzle is duplicated (all the same clues within a different puzzle in the same pack) and have had situations where my updated inputs had not saved if I left the app to go to something else. Again, good app with some problems to be fixed to warrant an annual subscription.