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CW-40
TM
crosswords
puzzle solver
User’s Manual
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WELCOME TO THE FRANKLIN WORLD OF ELECTRONIC REFERENCE PRODUCTS Thank you for purchasing Crosswords. Crosswords (CW-40) is a pocket-sized crossword puzzle buster. It con- tains over 250,000 words from a variety of Merriam-Webster reference works (Webster’s Official Crossword Puzzle Dictionary among others), a Second Guess feature which expands word lookups, a Jumble key which finds words from a set of typed-in letters, a Phrase key which will find all of the phrases in the product which cont
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CROSSWORDS (CW-40) Getting Started Turn Crosswords on by pressing ON/OFF . The screen below appears: The above screen is your indication that Crosswords is ready for you to type in a word. ADJUST THE DISPLAY CONTRAST, if necessary, by pressing or several times. If the display seems too faint, try . If the display seems too dark, or if you see nothing but dark squares, try . IMPORTANT: The contrast can be adjusted from the “Ready” screen only. AUTOMATIC SHUTOFF: To save battery life, your
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the clue. To see another answer, press the down arrow key. Whenever you see a blinking down arrow at the far right of the screen, you can press the down arrow key to see more words. NOTE: If you should happen to enter an incorrectly typed word, Cross- words will return words which are close to the misspelling. However, the word list in Crosswords was created for use as a game aid. We do not rec- ommend its use as a general purpose spell-checking device. Crossword puzzles don’t count blanks or
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to know what words have the letters “act” in them, at the beginning, mid- dle, or end. Press . ✱ Type act. Press ✱ . Your screen looks like the one below: Press ENTER . The screen below appears: You now have a list of all of the words containing the word “act”. Just find one which contains the letters included on your letter rack and nail that triple-word-score space. Press the down arrow key to see the word list. If you’re only interested in words that begin with “act”, you’d type act✱. If yo
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case. This is to illustrate that the “Second Guess” feature has substituted another letter for the one which was typed-in. If you press , you’ll see other words which can be made from the word which was typed-in if one letter is changed. If you still don’t see a word which will solve the puzzle, and you suspect that two letters in your original word may be wrong, press SECOND-GUESS again. Two letters are now substituted. Press the key again for three sub- stitutions and so on. Phrases The ph
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ENTER . Soon you’ll see a list of words which may be used on the Scrabble board: “onyx”, for example. And if you use the blank piece: “oryxes”. Big points, big points! Crosswords is also great if that triple-word-score is sitting within striking distance and you’re not sure if you can take advantage of it. Just type in the letters which appear on your letter tray and add the letter(s) from the board. Crosswords will let you know whether a valid word can be ob- tained. For example, suppose
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Technical Specifications Contents: — 250,466 word crossword correction list — Matchmaker II single character and prefix/suffix correction — word list edited and maintained by Merriam-Webster Microprocessor: 65C02 with a Franklin proprietary master control chip ROM (Read Only Memory): 4 Megabits RAM (Read/Write Memory): 2 Kilobytes LCD Display: 1 x 16 Keyboard: 39 keys with permanent molded legends Size: 10.6 cm x 6.2 cm x .56 cm Weight: 1.8 oz. Battery: 1 Lithium CR2032 (Easily found and replaced)
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Trouble? Crosswords is designed to provide many years of reliable service. The most common sources of trouble are: — Weak battery — Improperly installed battery — LCD contrast not adjusted properly Please check the above problems first. NOTE: A weak battery may cause Crosswords to behave strangely, and possibly display incorrect or meaningless information on the screen. PERSISTENT TROUBLE? Refer to the U.S. warranty, or contact the place of purchase. Customers outside the United States shoul
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FRANKLIN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHERS, INC. LIMITED WARRANTY (U.S.A. ONLY) Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (“Franklin”) warrants to the end user that this product will be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of ONE YEAR from the date of original retail purchase, as evidenced by sales receipt. On discovery of a defect, the end user must return this product (transportation charges prepaid) either to the dealer from whom it was purchased or directly to Franklin at the address
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FUNCTION KEY GUIDE ON/OFF : Activates and deactivates the unit. : Used to navigate through lists and information. The upward pointing arrow also types an apostrophe when you’re typing in a word. SECOND-GUESS : Expands a search for words by substituting letters. JUMBLE : Finds words which match typed-in letters. PHRASES : Finds phrases which contain a typed-in word. ENTER : Used to call up various response screens. : One of Franklin’s Matchmaker function keys. This is ✱ the Matchmaker key and
