Are you a teacher who needs to make a free crossword puzzle for your students to enhance a geography or vocabulary lesson? Do you long to express your creativity by creating word games for your friends or family? Are you a parent who wants to make a free crossword puzzle for your children for education or for recreation? Then learning to make a free crossword puzzle from scratch is a step in the right direction.

Several Internet sites offer crossword compilers and software programs that design games for you; just insert the word and clue in the blank and the crossword puzzle, cryptogram, or word game is created for you, for any occasion and in a variety of themes. Many of these programs make a free crossword puzzle in different grid sizes ranging from 12X12 to 18X18. Our "Make a Free Crossword Puzzle Resources" section gives you the option of trying one of these programs for yourself and expressing your creativity, whether you are a teacher, parent, or puzzle aficionado.