Sunday Crossword

People are still making stuff for the Sinclair related machines. Tell us about new games and other software that runs on the Spectrum, ZX80/ZX81, Pentagon and Next.
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Kweepa
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Sunday Crossword

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R-Tape
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Re: Sunday Crossword

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Top stuff, very nice interface.

Quite hard.
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Yes very good.
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Re: Sunday Crossword

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Thanks!
R-Tape wrote: Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:12 am Quite hard.
Yeah, I had to go with some obscure games to fit them in... I couldn't find a flat list of all the games from ZXDB so I had to use WoS's advanced search with regex like ??N??R in the corners. Still took several hours! Next time I'll write a program to do it :)
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Einar Saukas
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Kweepa wrote: Mon Mar 26, 2018 2:48 pmI couldn't find a flat list of all the games from ZXDB
Next time let me know, I can easily export an up-to-date list for you!
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Re: Sunday Crossword

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Crikey - can only get one answer... :o
My Speccy site: thirdharmoniser.com
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Re: Sunday Crossword

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A couple of answers to help out... no cheating!
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RickDangerous, Escape
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Juan F. Ramirez
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Re: Sunday Crossword

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I love the format! And very difficult. I only guessed two.

Keyboard killing sports game:
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Track and Field
_______ Low Level:
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Tornado (that's too easy! :)
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Re: Sunday Crossword

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New one here:
http://www.kweepa.org/step/speccy/crossword2.tap.

Changes:
all new crossword answers (duh!)
hopefully better clues (so maybe easier?)
more responsive interface
puzzle generated automatically from a ZXDB export provided by Einar (thanks!)
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