Crossword Anagrams is a powerful tool to help find answers to cryptic
crosswords or any puzzle that requires finding anagrams. Finding
anagrams can be as simple as providing letters or a clue and clicking
Find Anagrams. There are advanced features that require you give the Crossword
Anagrams tool a little help in order to find trickier answers.
Consider the following cryptic crossword clue.
Crossword Anagrams will use the word lengths (5,5) and look for anagrams that have 2 words, each 5 letters long, using words in the clue that add up to 10 letters
"from you get", "which could", "you get lamp", and "lamp recast"
are the only words that add up to 10 letters.
Word Lengths
If the clue contains word lengths (e.g. 5,5) only answers that conform to the specified word lengths will be displayed. in the example above, only answers with 2 words, each 5 letters long, will be displayed.
♦ Word lengths specified in the Word Lengths field overrride word lengths in the clue.
♦ If no word lengths are provided in the clue or in the Word Lengths field, then the answer is assumed to be one word with the length equal to the number of letters entered in the Letters or Clue field.
Specify
Word Lengths using a comma or space separated list of numbers. For example:
4,6
limits the answers to anagrams consisting of 2 words, 4 and 6 letters long.
Patterns
If any of the letters in the answer are known they can be entered in the
Answer Pattern box.The syntax is
not the same as the
Crossword Solver. Unlike the crossword solver, the pattern can be shorter than the answer. Answers will only be displayed if they contain the pattern.
???? answer must be at least 4 letters long
??G answer has any 2 letters followed by G
8 answer must be >= 8 letters long
94 answer must be >= 13 letters long (9+4)
ME?A ME followed by any letter, followed by A
Use any punctuation or space as ?
In order to correlate a letter with a specific position in the answer add leading and trailing placeholders (?) such that the pattern is as long as the answer. For example, if the 3rd letter is known to be an R and the answer is 5 letters long, the pattern should be:
??R??
♦ Answers are limited to 30 characters
♦ Answers can only contain the letters A-Z