App: Black Ink 2
Developer: Red Sweater Software
Genres: Games, Puzzle, Word, Entertainment

Solve Crossword Puzzles in Style: free to download and use, with optional paid upgrade for premium features. Try all the premium features for 14 days with a free in-app-trial "purchase." NOTE: You will only be charged if you choose to unlock premium features permanently.

Everything you need to download, solve, and print puzzles on your Mac.

Compatible with macOS 10.12 and later, including macOS Catalina.

Black Ink is free to use indefinitely with some premium features disabled. Unlock Black Ink's premium features with a one-time purchase to enjoy these additional features:

- Check your answers with most puzzles
- Race the clock with our puzzle timer
- Print book-quality copies of puzzles for solving on paper

Black Ink opens and solves puzzles that use the Across Lite format, which are distributed by several free and paid sources in the United States, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Values Club, and others.

Release notes:
This update includes the following fixes for:

- Improvements to NYT authentication process
- Calendar picker favors the current/latest puzzle date if a new puzzle has arrived since last opening
- Calendar picker allows selection of valid puzzle days from the next/previous month

Version 2.2.7 mitigated issues that caused NYT to think Black Ink users are "robots."

Version 2.2.6 addresed an issue in 2.2.5 that broke the "Mark incorrect answers as you enter them" option.

Version 2.2.5 included these changes:

- Prevent a superflous error message when canceling Across Lite export
- Clicking the circle in the calendar interface now jumps to the current day
- Fix a bug that prevented Edit -> Copy from working in the Puzzle Notes popover
- Fix a bug that prevented the Puzzle Notes popover from staying open while detached from window
- Answers with diacritical marks (like Ñ) are now considered correct even if diacritical is not included

Version 2.2.4 featured these changes:

- Puzzle Notes popover is now keyboard navigable
- Refinements to focused square coloring
- Shift-arrow keystroke now changes focused word without changing the current direction
- Fix issues with text encoding of Across Lite puzzles with unicode characters
- Puzzle picker now supports left arrow key to navigate from calendar view back to puzzle list
- Check for Updates now includes a link to Version History when there are no new updates
- Fix some subtle issues with determining the valid dates for downloading puzzles

Version 2.2, the last major feature update, included these changes:

* New calendar-based puzzle browser for easier download of historical puzzles *
* Preferences now includes an option to run in Dark Mode, Light Mode, or System default *
* New York Times Enhancements *
	- Support for shaded squares (previously they were shown as circles)
	- Support for italics, bold, and special characters in clue text

* Other fixes and enhancements *
	- The app now prompts to open another puzzle after finishing with one
	- When solving, the delete key now moves to previous word if first letter is already blank
	- Improved performance opening next puzzle for sources that have a large number of previously downloaded puzzles
	- Improved drawing of checked/revealed/incorrect symbols especially on non-Retina displays
	- Puzzle answers are now considered correct even if they don't match upper/lower case
	- Fix a crashing bug that could occur if right-clicking on the preview puzzle in Preferences
	- Improved the appearance of answer letters in cells, particular longer "Special Entry" answers
	- Elapsed solving time is now saved with the puzzle when closing/re-opening
	- The Copy Clue menu item no longer includes the clue number in the copied text
	- Fix a crash that could occur when entering special answers in some puzzles
	- Accessibility: puzzle chooser now hides puzzle source icons from VoiceOver

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Questions or concerns about the app? Get in touch at support@redsweater.com. Thank you!