Crossword puzzle maker online

I've a new favorite online crossword puzzle maker.  I've used SpellingCity for years for my kids and I'm so thrilled to see that they've added a coool OH crossword puzzle maker.  It seems to work with any number of words and at any level. The clues are generated automatically, what a thrill. Check it out. Here's some details:

Premium Crossword is an online crossword puzzle game using the words and content from your lists.* Use this activity as your own personal crossword puzzle maker. Make crossword puzzles for kids that use content created especially for your students by entering your word list and customizing the sentences! Crosswords can be played as puzzles online or printable puzzles may be generated as worksheets for your students.

Premium Crossword Instructions:

 To begin, read the first crossword clue in the Across box, then click in the first box for that clue and begin typing your answer (make sure that the correct direction - across or down - is highlighted). You can also click in the first box for any crossword answer on the puzzle, and the crossword clue will be highlighted as Across or Down. Click the Hint button to be given one letter of the word. After entering all of the words, crossword solvers can just click Check Answer to see if you have successfully solved the crossword puzzle! Click the speaker icon for instructions. Click the up and down arrows to scroll through the crossword clues. Premium Crossword is available as an online word puzzle game, or you can create your own crossword printable.

Another  favorite crossword puzzle sites is the Vocabulary Crossword puzzle. And here's a great article on teaching with crossword puzzles...

Teaching with Crossword Puzzles

The History of CrossWord Puzzles 

The first “word-cross” in the United States was published in the New York World in 1913, although similar puzzles have been around in different forms since Egyptian times. In 19 th century England, they were aimed mostly at a juvenile audience, and did not become a craze for adults until Simon and Schuster printed the first book of them in the US in the 1920’s, when they then took on the familiar name “crosswords.”