I'm very excited to announce that my first app is up for sale on the iTunes App Store! My husband Ralph and I have been working on this for ages — he is the expert code monkey, and I've done the graphics and written all the crosswords. My Quick Break crosswords have appeared for years in The Cairns Post. They are 13 x 13 quick crosswords (not cryptic), and mostly quite easy to solve, with the occasional tricky word. I am no longer doing syndicated puzzles for newspapers (a rapidly dying field), so apps are the way forward. This first volume contains 50 of my Quick Break crosswords. Volumes 2, 3 and 4 are in production. Here are some screen shots to entice you! Just tap on the grid to bring up the keyboard, then start typing in your answers: You can choose from four fonts and nine background papers, including dark papers and crumpled paper with coffee stains! And you can choose the colours for everything - the grid, the text, and the highligh...
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