About
Crosswords made for someone.
Custom Crossword is made by a small team who love crosswords and wanted an easy way to make one for the people in our lives.
Why we made it
A crossword with your grandmother's maiden name in it, the street you grew up on and the dog's nickname is a different thing from one out of a newspaper. Making one by hand takes an evening and a lot of graph paper. We built this so it takes a few minutes, and so the people you send it to can solve it on their phone without installing anything.
How a puzzle is made
You bring the words. Our engine, which we wrote ourselves, fits them into a grid: a free-form criss-cross made only of your words, or a traditional newspaper-style grid where a dictionary fills the squares around them. The clues are yours to write. If you'd like a start, our clue writer suggests some in the tone you choose, for you to edit.
What we keep
Only what the site needs to work: no ads, no tracking cookies, and we never sell data. A puzzle you share is unlisted and opens only from its link. The details are in our privacy policy.
Get in touch
We read every message, and a person writes back. Write to us.