Across Crossword Trainer
Step into the gaming world with Across Crossword Trainer, one of the top $6.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Literate Software LLC, this captivating Puzzle game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 15th October 2010, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 2nd April 2020.
Whether you have a liking for Puzzle, Education, or Word games, Across Crossword Trainer is sure to keep you hooked!
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Would you like to learn how to solve crosswords like an expert? This app is what you need.
If you are frustrated with not being able to solve US-style English crosswords from respected newspapers and perhaps even doubting your ability, now there is an app for that.
Join the thousands of people that have used this app to improve their skills enough to be able to solve published crosswords that they once thought were beyond their abilities.
Exquisitely designed for the iPad by the creators of Across Lite, the most widely used crossword solver software since 1995, this crossword skill building kit will help you improve your skills considerably. Not with boring study material or tests – just by solving specially created crosswords.
What it is:
- The most enjoyable and sophisticated crossword solver ever built
- An included collection of 75 crosswords professionally constructed to teach how to solve crosswords with learning notes for each crossword
What it is NOT:
- Crossword solver for Across Lite crosswords available on the web. Install our Across Lite Crosswords app from the store for this.
Using a unique interface that looks like a printed crossword, the app lets you focus on improving your skills even if you have never used a crossword app before.
Crossword solving skills are a combination of ability, technique and practice. The automated help in scanning and selecting clues to solve that captures techniques from expert solvers will help you incorporate those techniques into your solving.
The carefully and professionally constructed 75 crosswords included in the kit take you through a progression of easy, medium and transitional levels, with increasing levels of word play and themes while familiarizing you with some of the oft-repeated crossword "cliches" that makes solving harder puzzles easier. Brief notes for each crossword provide learning points.
You should be ready to tackle most reputable crosswords by the time you finish the included crosswords. If you need additional crosswords for practice, you can purchase more crosswords from renowned authors from inside the app.
We hope you enjoy this lovingly-crafted app as much as we have enjoyed building it.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Across Crossword Trainer on 2nd April 2020:
Minimum iOS required raised to 11.x, since new updates to the App Store will not run on older (32-bit) iPads with iOS 10 or earlier.
People with older iPads should see the last known running version v 4.1 available to them for install.
Hear from the Players – Across Crossword Trainer Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Across Crossword Trainer:
App. We especially appreciate that there are easy ones for this neophyte.
We had tried easy crossword puzzles since we had never done them but just found them boring. This app is helping us learn how to solve them and thats what we need.
Excellent excessive for our brain and memory for our recovery from a stroke over a year ago. It helps us recover some of the memory we lost. Great fun as well. AlexT.
We have been tinkering for years. This is really helping us become a pro.
We like the options available to set the layout on the page the way it works best for each individual.
Love this app only thing that bothers us is after the last updates ,you have to click different ways to get the letter in the box ,other than that just the right amount of easy,medium and hard puzzles for your every mood.
This is one of the first apps we downloaded years ago. We played it a lot back then and really enjoyed it. We recently started playing again and its just as great! We hope the developer keeps it simple and basic. Thats the appeal to us.
Great app, helps you if you get stuck, we bought all the packs at the beginning, it’s a lot cheaper that way.
The only criticism we have so far is that when we poke an incorrect letter accidentally it counts against us. That may not be a real error!
Nice and easy to learn how to work crossword puzzles.
Love this app. Play it every night. Expect to become addicted.
Not just a lot of crosswords, but also hints and strategies at how to work through them.
So thankful the developers updated their apps. As challenging as you want or as easy as you need it to be! Thank you devs! Dont miss out on a great crossword app!
We bought this app to improve and learn, and we have not been disappointed.
First of all this app does not give you pages and pages of ‘how to solve puzzles’ strategies. Rather it puts you in the middle of the action by making you solve a bunch of easy,and then harder puzzles. It also lets you get the answers whenever you want and it has a feature where it warns you if you are typing the wrong letter. There is also a feature where,before you start the puzzle,there is a brief paragraph educating you of the nuances of solving crosswords. Along the way you begin to understand how to read clues,how to spot cliches and by the time you get finished with all the puzzles in the app,you will have become a better crossword puzzle solver-good enough to tackle most top newspaper crosswords.
We have never done many crosswords, but like word games. This app teaches you how to complete puzzles. It is great for mental stimulation.
Works well. Very entertaining. Good mental exercise. Only problem is letters on left of screen don’t always respond to first tap. Orienting the screen horizontally helps.
Love this game,best we have found in quite some time. Can be addicting. Absolutely recommend.
Fantastic app! We’ve always wanted to work harder puzzles and this app helps with some of the standard "filler" words in all crossword puzzles! Plus it’s good entertainment if you’re stuck somewhere with time on your hands. IMO, well worth the price!
We have really improved by starting with the easy levels. When doing the harder ones, the training hints help us understand the progression in difficulty.
We have been looking for a good crossword puzzle app for quite awhile and it appears that we have found it. Lots of puzzles and keeps you busy.
We love this!! We are taking this trainer course, and It is so neat to see how much we already know!!!!! It is so user-friendly and so much fun… Best part is we’re learning and having FUN all AT the SAME time!!!!!!! Thank You so much for this, and we hope to see more crosswords by this developer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an excellent puzzle packet. Easy to use, fun to master.
Great for all levels! Love the tips for beginners.
We were a beginner when we started using this app and now we do crossword puzzles regularly. Wonderful app. Our concern now is what to do after we’ve finished all the puzzles. We highly recommend this app!
This app was so nice that we did it twice. Very helpful in preparing for more difficult puzzles.
Very addictive! Puzzles are challenging, but solvable. Lots of fun!
Many nicely written puzzles. A great value!
We are not a skilled crossword puzzle player but this app is teaching us how and to enjoy the game as well.
We are a crossword aficionado, but have never really been comfortable going passed the "medium" level puzzles… Until now :)
This application a must for new crossword enthusiasts. Veterans will enjoy as well. Very intuitive and no gimmicks. Great fun!
Great little app to introduce the uninitiated to the world of crosswords. It is not enough to have a good vocabulary (though it helps), but one must learn how to use it to be a successful crossword solver. Knowing words that function as nouns and verbs, knowing the "tricks of the trade," and knowing how to work off already solved answers are all part of the tools provided. Initially, the crosswords will appear simple, but it is attention to the development of the techniques that are most important, and this app will teach them to you. And what a wonderful world will open to you …
We have had this app for years and we always enjoy the challenges. We need no other crossword puzzle on our iPad. This is the one!
We love the idea of gradually increasing the difficulty of the puzzles. Lots of fun, and we don’t feel like such an idiot!
First off, we never did crossword puzzles because they did not make sense to us and we didn’t like feeling "dumb"… But, if you would have told us after downloading and using this app, crossword puzzles would become one of our favorite past times, we would have laughed at you! This app is incredible!
This is a great app for crossword lovers! And the training is very helpful for new solvers! Now we just need more puzzles!
This is a great way to learn how to do crossword puzzles. Easy to follow hints and directions.
We are loving this app. It’s designed very well and we feel like we are progressing.
Love this app! Have learned so much and improved our ability to solve crosswords!
Very helpful, with lots of useful tips, on successful solving. It cuts down on the frustration factor by providing letters or words, you simply can’t get. We feel we’re a much better crossword puzzle solver, after working with this App.
We just love !!! When will there be more ??? AGAIN, WHEN WILL THERE BE MORE ???
We recently retired and wanted to give our brain and thought processes a daily workout, this did the trick! Great way to learn crossword and progressively gets more difficult. This is a great buy!!!
Easy to use and fun. Great way to learn.
The instructions make this app very user friendly! We love that the puzzle lets you know if you’ve entered the wrong letter. Great crossword app!