Quality-of-life improvements for New York Times crosswords and puzzles

Latest Version

Version

1.0.0

Update

February 15, 2020

Size

19.73KiB

Developer

xwTweaks Extension

xwTweaks makes quality-of-life improvements for New York Times crosswords and puzzles. Here are some of the features:

- Keyboard shortcuts for crosswords/acrostics
--- Hold Shift for pencil mode
--- Press grave (`) to pause
- Adds links to all puzzles in the navbar for easy access
- Spelling Bee: Letter shading to assist with pangrams
- SET: Clearer distinction selected vs. unselected tiles when hovering
- Nitpicky removal of style annoyances
--- Removes title text on crossword board
--- Allows you to collapse all the days on the stats page bar graph
--- Replace the 'how to solve' link on the homepage with a much smaller one
--- Remove ugly \"FREE\" badges from puzzle links on the homepage

Source Manifest.json

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