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Actually, there are plenty of free on-line crossword makers, e.g: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/

 

Chris

It turns out that good crossword puzzles of the type found in newspapers are fairly hard to generate, and require a pool of lots of words, not all of which are used.

When they say a crossword is "by" someone (i.e. the New York Times), they must mean just the pattern, and the words are filled in via computer. What I do is figure out the pattern *and* the words inside. It's a hard job, but well worth it. For an example of the type of stuff I do, download the pdf files of my work here.