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xword-dl

xword-dl is a command-line tool to download .puz files for online crossword puzzles. For a supported outlet, you can easily download the latest puzzle, or specify one from the archives.

Currently, xword-dl supports:

• The New Yorker
• Newsday
• The LA Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post
• USA Today

To download a puzzle, run xword-dl on the command line. For example, to download the latest New Yorker puzzle, you could run:

xword-dl tny --latest

or simply:

xword-dl tny

To download the Newsday Saturday Stumper and save it as stumper.puz, you could enter:

xword-dl nd --date saturday --output stumper

The resulting .puz file can be opened with cursewords or any other puz file reader.