CCXXV

CCXXV is a crossword assistant, intended to help you find the right word to fill out your missing squares.

In addition to the normal functionality to help fill out a single answer, it can also help in those tricky corners where you have two clues that cross on an unknown letter.

Installation

ccxxv is available through pip:

$ pip install ccxxv

Usage

To find a word with missing letters, use '.' to represent any missing letters:

$ ccxxv ba..na

banana

To find a pair of words that cross on an unknown letter, use '+' to represent the crossing letter:

$ ccxxv ba+.na u+cle

n
banana  uncle

These commands use the default wordlist, UKACD. To use a different wordlist, pipe it to stdin:

$ echo xxx | ccxxv ...

xxx

Why the name?

CCXXV is 225 in Roman numerals. Crosswords typically occupy a 15x15 grid, 15x15 is 225 and Roman numerals are a common device in crosswords (e.g. "Drink for about 50 notes (3)", ALE).

Wordlist

The default word list is UKACD 2009, Copyright (c) 2009 J Ross Beresford, All rights reserved.

This is a wordlist designed for crosswords, and contains commonly used phrases and Proper Nouns.