Freezes, but Ive managed to make it work for me

Old review: You can definitely tell that this app hasnt been updated in years. Interface is somewhat clunky, and its not optimized for ipad. Not as slick looking as crosswords in USA todays full app. But it works fine in iOS 7, and gives me access to way more puzzles than the full USA today app or website. And it was free. So Im happy. Hopefully it will continue to work.

New review: Now that Ive updated to iOS9, it doesnt work right for me either. Ive discovered that what makes it freeze is when a window tries to pop up. Completing a puzzle, checking for errors, deleting from the info screen...all of those events make it freeze. So I work around it: to check for errors, I go into settings and turn on the show errors setting (then turn it back off after I look). To delete puzzles, I go back to the list of puzzles and edit it (one at a time). And when I finish a puzzle and it freezes, I close the app by double tapping the home button, and then re-open it. Yes, its a pain, and obviously not how the app is supposed to work. But its working for me.

This doesnt solve the issue of recent puzzles, but I havent done most of the old puzzles so Im just working my way backwards through all of the old ones. It will download puzzles from the previous week and earlier. (If you want to do recent puzzles, use the regular USA Today app.)

Im not sure if this review will be helpful to anyone or not, or if anyone is crazy enough to work around all of this nonsense like I have. But I am enjoying the puzzles. Obviously I would prefer that they just fix the darn thing, but its pretty apparent that that wont happen.

nefariousporpoises about USA TODAY® Crosswords, v1.6