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With your Crosswords puzzle solver you can . . . • find possible crossword answers when you know only a few letters, • find more possible answers by changing letters, • find phrases by typing a key word, • find possible answers by topic, and • play the Quiz game to practice your puzzle solving skills. Crosswords can’t solve all your crossword puzzles, but by combining your knowledge with its 130,000 word crossword answer list from Chambers®, you can find more answers than you find now. This User’s Guide shows you how. You can follow its numbered steps using the examples shown or by using words that interest you. 1 Key Guide BACK ? TOPICS QUIZ PHRASE ON/OFF MORE HELP ENTER CLEAR Function Keys Goes back a step or space. Clears to Ready. Enters a word or scrolls text left. Shows help information. Finds more word choices. Turns Crosswords on or off. Searches for phrases including key word. Starts the Quiz game. Shows the Topics Menu. Types a ? to stand for a letter. Types a dash. Direction Keys Erases a letter or moves left. Types a space or moves right. Scrolls up a list or darkens contrast at Ready. Scrolls down a list or lightens contrast at Ready. 2 Getting Started Follow these steps the first time you use this product. 1. Press ON/OFF. A brief demonstration appears. To stop the demonstration, press CLEAR. 2. Press or repeatedly to adjust the screen contrast. NOTE: You can adjust the screen contrast only at Ready. 3 Disabling the Demonstration You probably don’t want to view the demonstration each time you turn Crosswords on. To disable the demo, type --Dat Readyand then press ENTER. 3 Resuming Where You Left Off To save battery life, Crosswords will automatically shut off within two minutes. When you turn it on again, you return to the last screen that you viewed. 3 Finding Words Crosswords helps you find answers to crossword puzzles by finding missing letters. Type a ?in place of each unknown letter and let Crosswords find every possible match in its word list. 1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g., ?ALL??Y). To erase a letter, press BACK or . To type a space, press . You can type capitals only. 2. Press ENTER to search. The matches appear. 3. Press to scroll down the list. A ?can stand for a space as well as a letter, as shown here. 4. Press CLEAR when finished. 4 Finding Words 3 Viewing Help Information You can view help information at most screens by pressing HELP. To scroll the help automatically, press ENTER. To exit help, press BACK. 3 Follow the Arrows The flashing arrows show which arrow keys you can press to view more. 3 What is the Flashing ? Some words belong to one or more topic. When you see the flashing Tat the right of the screen, press TOPICS to view the topics with which that word is associated. To learn more about topics, see “Finding Words by Topic.” 3 Scanning the Word List To scroll through the word list, press ENTER while in a Matchmaker™ list. Correct word will appear. You can now press the arrow keys to scroll up or down the list. 5 Finding More Words If the word you are looking for is not on the Matchmaker list, press MORE to find more possibilities. Crosswords substitutes a letter for one that you’ve typed. Try this example. 1. Enter a word (e.g., DOT). Correct word appears. This means the word was spelled correctly. 2. Press MORE. The lowercase letter is the new letter. 3. Press repeatedly to view more matches. These are all variations, with one letter changed, of the original word DOT. 4. Press CLEAR when finished. 6 Finding Phrases Crosswords can also find phrases that include a key word. 1. Type a word in a phrase (e.g., CAT). 2. Press PHRASE. 3. Press repeatedly to view the phrases. 4. Press CLEAR when finished. 3 Correcting Misspellings Crosswords can be used as spell checker. However, it can correct only those words that are in this crossword list from Chambers®. It may not contain commonly used English words. 7 Finding Words by Topic You can even narrow your search by topic. There are 196 topics from which to choose. They include anything from Chemical substancesto Cartoon characters. 1. Press TOPICS. The Topics Menu appears. 2. Press repeatedly until the topic you want appears (e.g., BIBLE). Or type the first letter in the topic (see “A Quicker Way to Find a Topic”). 3. Press ENTER. 4. Type your crossword guess with ?’s at the Ready screen (e.g., M???S). 5. Press ENTER to view the possible answers under your selected topic. 6. Press to scroll down the list. 7. Press CLEAR when finished. 8 Finding Words by Topic 3 A Quicker Way to Find a Topic To zoom to a particular topic, type its first letter. You will go directly to the first topic that starts with that letter. For example, press TOPICS and type a V. You go directly to Vegetables. Now press to scroll down the list until you find the topic you wanted starting with a V. Note: There are no topics starting with the letters K, Q, X, or Y. 3 Finding Words under Topics To find a list of the words associated with a specific topic, fi...