C LANGAUGE ONLY NO C++ (A Crossword-Puzzle Generator) Most people have worked a crossword puzzle at one time or another, but few have ever attempted to generate one. Generating a crossword puzzle is a difficult problem. It is suggested here as a string-manipulation project requiring substantial sophistication and effort. There are many issues you must resolve to get even the simplest crossword-puzzle gener- ator program working. For example, how does one represent the grid of a crossword puzzle inside the computer? Should one use a series of strings, or should double-subscripted arrays be used? You need a source of words (i.e., a computerized dictionary) that can be directly referenced by the pro- gram. In what form should these words be stored to facilitate the complex manipulations required by the program? The really ambitious reader will want to generate the clues portion of the puzzle in which the brief hints for each across word and each down word are printed for the puzzle worker. Merely printing a version of the blank puzzle itself is not a simple problem.