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Introduction Now there’s a fun way to make crossword puzzles less puzzling. With your Cross- words 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 answ
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Key Guide Function Keys BACK Goes back a step or space. CLEAR Clears to Ready. ENTER Enters a word or scrolls text left. HELP Shows help information. MORE Finds more word choices. ON/OFF Turns Crosswords on or off. PHRASE Searches for phrases including key word. QUIZ Starts the Quiz game. TOPICS 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
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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 --D at Ready and then press ENTER. 3 Resuming Where You Left Off To save battery life, C
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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 finishe
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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 T at the right of the screen, press TOPICS to view the topics with which that word is associated. To learn more about topics, see “Finding Wo
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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
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Finding Phrases Crosswords can also find phrases that in- clude 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
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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 sub- stances to 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
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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
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Playing the Quiz Game Crosswords has a fun, challenging game which you can play to practice your cross- word puzzle solving skills. To play, you must guess the mystery word. Its topic appears briefly before each round. Your score will appear after each round and will clear to zero when you exit the game. 1. Press QUIZ. 2. Press or to view the skill level you want. 3. Press ENTER to select it. The topic of the mystery word briefly appears. 4. Type letters in place of the ?’s. If you type a lett
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Product Care Model CWQ-100 ™ • 130,000 words with Spellblaster II spelling ™ correction • Matchmaker letter-finding keys • Self-demonstration • Screen contrast adjustment • Size: 6.9 x 10.1 x 0.8 cm • LCD: 1 x 16 characters • Battery: one CR2032 3-volt lithium • Weight: 3.5 oz. Replacing the Battery This product uses one CR2032, 3-volt lithium battery. Should you need to replace the battery, unscrew the screws on the back with a very fine screwdriver and carefully remove the back cover. Then ins
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Limited Warranty (U.K. only) This product, excluding batteries, is guaran- teed by Franklin for a period of one year from the date of purchase. It will be repaired or re- placed (at Franklin’s option) free of charge for any defect due to faulty workmanship or ma- terials. Products returned under warranty should be sent to the original vendor with proof of pur- chase and description of fault. Charges will be made for all repairs unless valid proof of pur- chase is provided. This warranty explicit
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