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USA TODAY PLAY Crossword+

USA TODAY
Free
4.5 out of 5

About USA TODAY PLAY Crossword+

Elevate your puzzle-solving skills with the USA TODAY PLAY app, including Crosswords, Quick Cross and Sudoku! Challenge yourself daily with our renowned crossword puzzles, sudoku grids, and Quick Cross while keeping track of your progress, all in one ultimate puzzle games app.

• DAILY CROSSWORD CHALLENGE: Start your day with our iconic daily crossword puzzle, a brain teaser loved by millions. Free to play and accessible anytime, anywhere.

• PERSONALIZED PUZZLE EXPERIENCE: Monitor your stats, pause puzzles, and change difficulty settings for a tailored gaming experience.

• PUZZLE ARCHIVE: Delve into over a decade's worth of crossword puzzles, sudoku grids, and Quick Cross challenges. Hours of puzzle-solving fun await!

• GET PUZZLE HINTS: Stuck on a clue? Don't worry! Request hints to keep the puzzle excitement going.

• SUDOKU FUN: In addition to daily crosswords, challenge your logic with sudoku puzzles, available right at your fingertips.

• ULTIMATE PUZZLE GAMES: USA TODAY PLAY app is your one-stop destination for daily crossword, sudoku, and Quick Cross challenges, designed for puzzle enthusiasts of all levels.

Download the USA TODAY PLAY app today and enjoy hours of mind-bending puzzle fun. The app is free to download and play, with premium features available through in-app subscriptions. Subscriptions are charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation and renew automatically unless you disable them in your iTunes account settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Find more details and customer support in the app's settings.

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User Reviews

ErikS81
★☆☆☆☆ 1
Crashes
After the update on 12/17, the app just crashes when it trys to load
nefariousporpoises
★★★☆☆ 3
Small but annoying change
Please change the icon to something that actually represents crosswords or puzzles. I’m a creature of habit and the large P on my screen means nothing to me. Reminds me of Pandora, actually. And here’s a newsflash for you: there are other apps called crosswords+. I find myself not using the app lately because I keep thinking it’s something else! Like I said, it’s a small change but it’s completely changed how often I use this app
Taibucko
★☆☆☆☆ 1
Won’t open
New version of app one week ago. Will not launch when I try to open it.
tomatoes3
★★★☆☆ 3
Good puzzles, app needs work
This app is so clunky. Get rid of the massive bar at the top and make it so I don’t have to scroll. I want to see the whole crossword. Sometimes the keyboard just disappears. I figured out a loophole to get it back by tapping on settings, and now this loophole is gone since the latest update. I have to exit the crossword and reopen it to get the keyboard to reappear. If that wasn’t frustrating enough, the app also doesn’t recognize when I finish a puzzle. I will again try opening and closing the puzzle which used to work but now I have to click the help button and “check puzzle” to know if It’s completed. Is this by design? It seemed to automatically show the “puzzle completed” screen once or twice when I first downloaded. Not saying you need to copy NYT format but please take some inspiration from them, because this is almost unusable.
anothrt btoken egg
★☆☆☆☆ 1
Keyboard goes away
New update has made the app impossible to use in flight.
Bamacruciverbalist
★★☆☆☆ 2
Flakey with ios 26
App now is unusable on my iPhone and Mini iPad because keypad will not come when you click on box to enter letter. It does work on version 15 on my ancient iPad air 2.
betsycs
★☆☆☆☆ 1
Bad
Keeps losing the keyboard while playing
Colomk
★★☆☆☆ 2
Navigation/keyboard error
Since the new Play release, in daily Crossword puzzle, navigating away from the app may cause the keyboard to be unavailable when the puzzle page is reopened.
August T '94
★★☆☆☆ 2
Dark Mode plz
Very bright UI, would really appreciate toggle to turn on/off dark mode (mostly at night). Otherwise great!
hippo777
★☆☆☆☆ 1
Keyboard issues after update
When doing a puzzle the keyboard disappears and you can’t get it back until you close the app and reopen it.