Solve Crossword Puzzles in Style: free to download and use, with optional paid upgrade for premium features. Try all the premium features for 14 days with a free in-app-trial "purchase." NOTE: You will only be charged if you choose to unlock premium features permanently.

Everything you need to download, solve, and print puzzles on your Mac.

Compatible with macOS 10.12 and later, including macOS Catalina.

Black Ink is free to use indefinitely with some premium features disabled. Unlock Black Ink's premium features with a one-time purchase to enjoy these additional features:

- Check your answers with most puzzles
- Race the clock with our puzzle timer
- Print book-quality copies of puzzles for solving on paper

Black Ink opens and solves puzzles that use the Across Lite format, which are distributed by several free and paid sources in the United States, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Values Club, and others.

New in this version

This update includes a number of incremental improvements and bug fixes:

- Color preferences can now be reset to default values
- Printed puzzles now include any formatting, e.g. italics, bold, that are specified for clues
- Puzzles based on east coast US timezone should now be available at the appropriate time in other time zones
- Fix a bug in 2.2 that caused kerning of text to be disabled in the clue lists
- Fix a bug that caused the app to sometimes become unresponsive while handling formatted clue text
- Fix auto-shrinking of clue font size to fit longer clues without clipping them
- Fix a variety of cosmetic glitches that affected older versions of macOS
- Fix a bug that prevented clues and grid numbers from being printed by default
- The puzzle timer no longer restarts automatically if a reopened puzzle is already solved
- Checking a puzzle that is complete and correct now re-displays completion panel

Version 2.2 included all of these improvements:

* New calendar-based puzzle browser for easier download of historical puzzles *

* Preferences now includes an option to run in Dark Mode, Light Mode, or System default *

* New York Times Enhancements *

- Support for shaded squares (previously they were shown as circles)
- Support for italics, bold, and special characters in clue text

* Other fixes and enhancements *

- The app now prompts to open another puzzle after finishing with one
- When solving, the delete key now moves to previous word if first letter is already blank
- Improved performance opening next puzzle for sources that have a large number of previously downloaded puzzles
- Improved drawing of checked/revealed/incorrect symbols especially on non-Retina displays
- Puzzle answers are now considered correct even if they don't match upper/lower case
- Fix a crashing bug that could occur if right-clicking on the preview puzzle in Preferences
- Improved the appearance of answer letters in cells, particular longer "Special Entry" answers
- Elapsed solving time is now saved with the puzzle when closing/re-opening
- The Copy Clue menu item no longer includes the clue number in the copied text
- Fix a crash that could occur when entering special answers in some puzzles
- Accessibility: puzzle chooser now hides puzzle source icons from VoiceOver

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