Palabra

Palabra is a free crossword editor written in Python, with a focus on professional crossword development.

Please look at https://bitbucket.org/svisser/palabra/wiki/Home for updated installation instructions!

Features:

• Store puzzles in the open XPF crossword file format (see http://www.xwordinfo.com/XPF/ ).
• Export to PDF and PNG.
• Various grid editing options, such as symmetry, adding and removing rows/columns, and moving content left/right/up/down.
• Adding and editing of clues.
• View puzzle properties, such as statistics and metadata.
• Visual warnings for unchecked cells, consecutive unchecked cells and two-letter words.
• Insert words using the default wordlist of Ubuntu (/usr/share/dict/words). Future versions will allow you to configure wordlists yourself.

Requirements:

• Python
• lxml