Sympathy helps you create professional quality crosswords for publication in print form or on the web. It has a wealth of construction and filling features to aid the compiler. Its flexibility in grid drawing and puzzle layout will appeal to crossword publishers. Sympathy supports US style fully checked, diagramless, blocked and barred grid puzzles. Completed crosswords can be printed directly, or exported in a variety of formats for publication.

Shows wordplay types you can use to clue an answer in a cryptic crossword: anagrams; reversal; charades; container and contents; head, middle, tail and ends deletion; alternation; substitution. Links to extensive lists of indicators for wordplay types and abbreviations. Saves time and improves cryptic clue quality by suggesting treatments you might not think of. Includes English language word list with over 250,000 entries.