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By using this website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

Cryptic Crossword Solver offers a free, browser-based cryptic crossword solver and an accompanying guide. No account is required and no payment is taken. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site at any time.

You may use this site for personal, non-commercial puzzle solving. You agree not to:

• Attempt to disrupt, overload or gain unauthorised access to the site or its infrastructure.
• Scrape or systematically copy the guide content for republication.
• Use the site in any way that breaks applicable law, or that infringes anyone else's rights.
• Misrepresent the site's output as your own original puzzle-setting work when submitting to competitions that forbid solving aids.

The written guide, design, original example clues and the solver's source code are ours. You are welcome to quote short passages with attribution and a link, but wholesale reproduction is not permitted.

The bundled English word list is derived from openly licensed sources and remains subject to its own licence terms.

Publication and tool names mentioned in the guide belong to their respective owners and are referred to for identification only.

The guide is educational. It is not professional advice of any kind, and the solver's suggestions carry no guarantee of correctness: see the disclaimer for the detail.

We link to external crossword tools and publications for reference. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of this site or reliance on anything it publishes. The site is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind.

We may revise these terms from time to time. The revision date at the top of this page shows when they last changed, and continued use of the site after a change means you accept the revised terms.

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