Danish crosswords published with the Crossword Generator — dense 11×11 to 15×15 grids, free to solve in the browser, or print with a blank grid and an answer key.
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Click any puzzle to solve it right in your browser. Your progress saves on your device, and you can reveal an entry from the clue list when you're stuck. Prefer pencil and paper? Every puzzle prints as a clean blank sheet with a separate answer key, and each printout carries a QR code back to its online version.
Format
How to make a Danish crossword
The kryds og tværs on a Danish newsstand usually prints its clues inside the dark squares, with small arrows pointing at the answers, and has no clue list at all. The puzzles here are the other kind: numbered squares, with the clues listed beside the grid under Vandret (across) and Lodret (down).
Every grid on this page is dense, in the style of the New York Times, from 11×11 up to 15×15. Each letter belongs to both an across and a down answer, so a square you can't get one way can usually be cracked from the other.
Danish writes its compounds as one word, like its neighbours: børnehave, køleskab, midnatssol. Its vocabulary is thickest at seven to nine letters, with nearly 43,800 words at eight, which is where a dense grid spends most of its squares.
Alphabet
Æ, Ø, Å and the article on the end
Danish has 29 letters: the Latin 26, then Æ, Ø and Å, in that order. Each takes its own square and has to be typed as itself. Only Å has a look-alike to trip over. The answers here include MAS (bother) beside MÅS, VADE (a mudflat) beside VÅDE, and UDAD (outward) beside UDÅD (a misdeed). Æ and Ø have no plain twin, so nothing in a grid is a mistyped E or O.
As in Norwegian, the definite article lives on the end of the noun. HUS, HUSET and HUSENE are "house", "the house" and "the houses", three words of different lengths. The answers here always use the base form, so you write hus, not huset.
Å is the newest Danish letter. Until the spelling reform of 1948 the same sound was written AA, and the old form survives in place names. Aalborg kept its double A, and Aarhus, which had become Århus, switched back in 2011.
In a grid that matters, because AA fills two squares and Å fills one, so the same word spelled the old way is a letter longer. The puzzles here use Å, as the dictionary does. The double-A place names are the exception, and you may meet them in a grid.
Norwegian solvers can follow along. Bokmål grew out of written Danish and the two read easily across the border, but the spelling differs in exactly the places a grid notices: Danish hvad against Norwegian hva, kærlighed against kjærlighet. Expect to be caught out a few times per puzzle.
Questions
Danish crossword FAQ
Yes. Every puzzle on this page can be solved in the browser at no cost, and printed with a blank grid and a separate answer key.
They are crosswords, but not the kind most Danish magazines print. A Danish kryds og tværs usually puts its clues inside the dark squares with arrows. These are numbered grids with the clues listed under Vandret and Lodret, and every letter is checked in both directions.
Largely, yes. Bokmål grew out of written Danish, so the clues will make sense, but the answers follow Danish spelling: hvad, not hva; kærlighed, not kjærlighet.
You need some way to type Æ, Ø and Å, since they are separate letters and an answer spelled with Å is a different word from one spelled with A (FÅR is a sheep, FAR is a father). On most systems a long press on A or O, or switching to the Danish layout, is enough.
Yes. Set the puzzle language to Danish in the Crossword Generator, type in any theme words you want, and auto-fill completes the rest of the grid with Danish words. Then write your clues, and print or publish the puzzle here.
Yes. The .puz format stores one byte per square, and its encoding covers Æ, Ø and Å, so Danish puzzles export cleanly and open in Across Lite and other desktop solvers. Printing to PDF and sharing the puzzle link both work as well.
Build one
Make your own crossword puzzle
Set the puzzle language to Danish (or any language), type in the words your puzzle is about, and auto-fill completes the rest of the grid around them. Write the clues, then print it or publish it to this shelf.
The showcase is an open crossword community: anyone can construct. Make a puzzle with the generator (the solver does the heavy lifting of filling the grid), write your clues, and hit Publish. Set up an author profile and every puzzle you publish gets collected on your own page, ready to share.
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