XWord is a cross-platform crossword puzzle program designed to be highly configurable. It reads multiple puzzle file formats.

Supported features:
1. Solving of all American style and cryptic crosswords.
2. Partial support for solving diagramless puzzles.
3. Solving rebus puzzles.
4. Solving puzzles with a variety of tricks, e.g. diagonal clues, arbitrary numbering schemes, shaded squares.
5. Support for reading number of puzzle formats: * Across Lite * XPF * jpz * ipuz (partial)
6. Recovery of corrupted Across Lite .puz files.
7. A timer.
8. Checking and revealing letters.
9. Scrambling and unscrambling puzzle solutions (for Across Lite files).
10. Viewing puzzle notes.
11. Zooming the grid in and out.
12. Rearranging the window layout.
13. Color, font, and solving behavior configuration.
14. Printing (not yet polished, and somewhat buggy)

XWord is extensible via the lua scripting language. A number of plugins are available. See Tools > Plugin Manager.

XWord allows the user to solve diagramless puzzles similarly to normal puzzles with the exception that black squares are allowed to be selected. When selected, black squares are outlined in the focused square color. To make a white square black, type a period ("."). To make a black square white, type a period or enter another letter.

Configuration settings can be accessed from the File menu (under "Preferences"). Users can configure grid movement/solving options, colors, and fonts. Most of XWord's configuration can be accessed this way.

XWord uses the wxWidgets cross-platform toolkit. The distributed builds are statically linked and use unicode. If you want to build a non-unicode version of XWord, you will get a couple of errors, because of a few unicode-specific functions and parameters.

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this game utility software.