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<h1>Exet</h1>
<h3>A web app for crossword construction</h3>
<h4>Version: Exet v0.95, March 12, 2025</h4>
<h4>Software by Viresh Ratnakar</h4>
<h3 title="Click to open Exet's README.md file in a new tab">
<a target="_blank"
href="https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exet/blob/master/README.md">[Link
to full user manual]</a></h3>
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<p>
Exet is free, open source software for setting crosswords.
You can use Exet from my site, <a target="_blank"
href="https://exet.app">exet.app</a> or you can download and use your own
copy of the software from the
<a target="_blank"
href="https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exet">Exet GitHub repository</a>.
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<p>
Exet comes with a permissive MIT license. The full license notice is provided
at the bottom of this page.
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<p>
Exet has no library/package/software dependencies. You should be able to use
it from any modern browser. The experience may not be great on smaller screens
like phones, though.
</p>
<p>
Exet saves all revisions of all crosswords that you work on, in the browser's
local storage. Exet never sends your crosswords to wherever it is getting
served from.
</p>
<p>
You can download the crosswords that you create with Exet in the
<a target="_blank"
href="https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exolve">Exolve</a> format
or in the .puz format.
You can also grab embeddable HTML code for adding your crossword to any web
site or blog, using Exolve (but see the
<a target="_blank"
href="https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exolve#exolve-widget">known caveats
in the Exolve documentation</a>).
</p>
<p>
As of May 2023, Exet supports English, Portuguese (BRazilian), and
Hindi (I'll add support for more languages over time).
</p>
<p>
I welcome <a target="_blank"
href="https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exet/issues/new">bug
reports, feature requests, useful links to add</a>.
You may
<a href="mailto:ideas@exet.app" target="_blank">contact me via email too</a>.
</p>
There's also a discussion group for users:
<a target="_blank"
href="https://groups.google.com/g/exolve-exet-etc">Exolve-Exet-Etc</a>.
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<h3>UKACD18</h3>
<p>
The lexicon used by Exet for providing grid-fill suggestions is a modified
version of the "UKACD" words list, which comes with its own copyight notice
that is reproduced below. I made the following modifications to the UKACD words
list:
<ul>
<li>Removed a few swear words.</li>
<li>Replaced all accented characters with non-accented ones.</li>
<li>Deleted all punctuation characters other than spaces, hyphens,
and apostrophes.</li>
<li>Attached a popularity score to each word/phrase using a dump of all of
Wikipedia's English-language articles.</li>
<li>Created an index of the lexicon suitable for use by my JavaScript
code. Source code for the last two steps is available in my
<a target="_blank"
href="https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/lufz">Lufz GitHub
repository</a>.</li>
</ul>
</p>
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UKACD18
Copyright (c) 2009 J Ross Beresford
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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<h3>CMUdict</h3>
<p>
Pronunciations of words (used for finding homophones and Spoonerisms) are
taken from the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dinctionary. Its copyright notice
is reproduced below.
</p>
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CMUdict
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CMUdict (the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary) is a free
pronouncing dictionary of English, suitable for uses in speech
technology and is maintained by the Speech Group in the School of
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Carnegie Mellon Speech Group does not guarantee the accuracy of
this dictionary, nor its suitability for any specific purpose. In
fact, we expect a number of errors, omissions and inconsistencies to
remain in the dictionary. We intend to continually update the
dictionary by correction existing entries and by adding new ones. From
time to time a new major version will be released.
We welcome input from users: Please send email to Alex Rudnicky
(air+cmudict@cs.cmu.edu).
The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, in its current and
previous versions is Copyright (C) 1993-2014 by Carnegie Mellon
University. Use of this dictionary for any research or commercial
purpose is completely unrestricted. If you make use of or
redistribute this material we request that you acknowledge its
origin in your descriptions, as per the license information included
in the dictionary file (a Simplified BSD lincense).
If you add words to or correct entries in your version of this
dictionary, we would appreciate it if you could send these additions
and corrections to us (air+cmudict@cs.cmu.edu) for consideration in a
subsequent version. All submissions will be reviewed and approved by
the current maintainer, Alex Rudnicky at Carnegie Mellon University.
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The current version of cmudict is now cmudict-0.7b
[First released November 19, 2014]
Note that the first '.' in the file name has changed to a '-' as it
was observed that file systems occasionally get confused about the
scope of the extension.
Please note that the dictionary is modified incrementally, to correct
errors are incorporate new words. If you require a unique version, be
sure to specify a revision when you check it out.
cmudict-0.7b includes various systematic fixes and additional words.
As always please let us know if you see a problem or want to suggest a
word.
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<h3>Shabd</h3>
<p>
The Hindi lexicon, including popularity scores and pronunciations, is
taken from <a href="https://osf.io/fygme/">Verma et al. (2020) Shabd:
A Psycholinguistic Database for Hindi. (submitted).</a>
</p>
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<h3>Portuguese (Brazilian) lexicon</h3>
<p>
The Portuguese (Brazilian) lexicon was assembled from the following sources:
</p>
<ul>
<li>The entries come from
<a href="https://github.com/fserb/pt-br">Dictionary collection in Portuguese (pt-BR)</a>
by Fernando Serboncini. Its MIT License is copied below.
</li>
<li>Pronunciations are taken from
<a href="https://github.com/iwmo/dicionario-fonetico">dicionario-fonetico</a>, which is
derived from the
<a href="http://www.portaldalinguaportuguesa.org/index.php?action=fonetica&act=list">
Common Orthographic Vocabulary of the Portuguese Language</a>.
</li>
</ul>
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MIT License
Copyright 2021 Fernando Serboncini
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
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<h3>Exet MIT License</h3>
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Exet
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Viresh Ratnakar
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
The latest code and documentation for Exet can be found at:
https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exet
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