Phil VS exet

Perhaps many of you know about the great free web crossword maker Phil. When I came across it last year, I loved it and tinkered with adding some more features to it. I never shared it at the time, but I thought that the new features might be useful enough that some might like to know about it, so here's a post now. Plus, I'm thinking about adding some more to it, and I'd be curious to hear what anyone's desires for potential additional features might be.

I love Exetby u/wavefn for cryptics

Does not support Å, Ä, Ö or custom word lists https://crossshare.org/construct https://viresh-ratnakar.github.io/exet.html https://www.crossworthy.net/construct/scratch

Just FYI, Exet does a good job with this, and has lots of other functions useful for filling in the grid.

Exet has a boatload of resources including some great lists of indicators.

check out qxw and exet for two great freely-available tools.

None of it is computer “generated” per se, but I do use software – mostly Exet now – to assist in selecting/creating the grid and trying to ensure each entry has at least two options. I also keep track of all the previous grids’ letter combinations, to try avoiding repeats. That last part has become increasingly difficult, though, so I will probably have to limit how far I track back in future.

I've used this to score the UKACD list, for use in Exet.