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Crosswords

Crosswords is a word game, available on Linux.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

At a glance

Crosswords is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

A simple and fun game of crosswords. Load your crossword files, or play one of the included games. Features include: Crosswords, Acrostics, Cryptics, and Barred puzzles Support for shaped and colored crosswords Loading .ipuz, .jpuz, .xd, and .puz files Hint support, such as showing mistakes and suggesting words Magnifier to give a zoomed view of the current cell Printing puzzles to solve on paper An adaptive layout, from large monitors to phone-sized screens Locally installed crosswords as well as support for third party downloaders

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 7 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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