CTAN update: crossword
Date: February 12, 2026 3:04:38 PM CET
Gerd Neugebauer submitted an update to the
crossword
package.
Version: 1.14 2026-02-11
License: other-free
Summary description: Typeset crossword puzzles
Announcement text:
Minor improvements for sudoku have been incorporated. The package options huge and Huge have been added.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/crossword The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/gene/crossword/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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Minor improvements for sudoku have been incorporated. The package options huge and Huge have been added.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/crossword The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/gene/crossword/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
crossword – Typeset crossword puzzles
An extended grid-based puzzle package, designed to take all input (both grid and clues) from the same file. The package can typeset grids with holes in them (for advertisements, or other sorts of stuff), and can deal with several sorts of puzzle:
- The classical puzzle contains numbers for the words and clues for the words to be filled in.
- The numbered puzzle contains numbers in each cell where identical numbers represent identical letters. The goal is to find out which number corresponds to which letter.
- The fill-in type of puzzle consists of a grid and a list of words. The goal is to place all words in the grid.
- Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles involve filling in grids of numbers according to their own rules.
Format may be block-separated, or separated by thick lines. Input to the package is somewhat redundant: specification of the grid is separate from specification of the clues (if they are necessary). The author considers this style both ‘natural’ and robust.
| Package | crossword |
| Version | 1.14 2026-02-11 |
| Copyright | 1995–2026 Gerd Neugebauer |
| Maintainer | Gerd Neugebauer |