Cryptic Trainer — Puzzles

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Import Puzzle

Paste the puzzle URL (Times or Telegraph) and the matching solution URL (TFTT or bigdave44).

Puzzle URL Source of clues, grid layout, and verified answers. Times puzzles fetch the public feed JSON; Telegraph puzzles scrape your active Chrome tab (open the puzzle in Chrome before submitting).

Puzzle Solution URL (optional) Times for the Times for Times puzzles, or Big Dave's Crossword Blog for Telegraph puzzles. Source of wordplay shorthand and the blogger byline. Leave blank to import in manual mode — you'll author the training data clue by clue.

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How to Play

Click a cell to select it
Type to fill in letters
Arrow keys to navigate
Space or click selected cell to toggle direction
Tab/Shift+Tab to move between clues
Backspace to clear and move back
Click a clue to jump to that word

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