Tools of the trade

On this page I have listed links of useful tools that I recommend. These tools have been invaluable, especially in setting puzzles. They include indicators for various things such as anagram, letter selection, container/insertions. homophones, hidden words etc.

List of Tools:

• Brief guide to the construction of cryptic crossword clues - by Michael Callaghan

• Anagram solver

• Nice tool for finding words with missing letters 

• Deletion/subtraction indicators

  • One, 

  • Two

  • Three

  • Four

• Letter selection indicators

• Homophone indicators

• Hidden word indicators, another one

• Container/insertion indicators, another one

• Anagram indicators, one more, this one is quite comprehensive

• Crossword abbreviations wiki, and one more (I use this quite extensively, you can down load it here)

• Reversal indicators

• Letter sequence indicators

• Juxtaposition indicators

• Great tool for searching words by a substring