Guardian Unlimited Crosswords: Frequently Asked Questions

What is Guardian Unlimited Crosswords?

Guardian Unlimited Crosswords is a subscription service offering the following crosswords:

The Guardian Prize Crossword
This cryptic crossword appears in the Guardian Saturday edition. You can fill it in online, then print it out and submit it in the same way as the newspaper version.

The Guardian Quick Crossword and The Guardian Cryptic Crossword
These both appear every day in the Guardian.

The Everyman
This appears every Sunday in the Observer.

The Genius
This special web-only prize crossword is published once a month. You can fill it in and submit it online.

Guardian Unlimited Quiptic
Another web-only crossword, part-cryptic and part-quick. It is added to the site every Monday.

Why do I have to pay for Guardian Unlimted Crosswords?

Please look at what our editor-in-chief, Emily Bell, has to say about subscriptions on Guardian Unlimited>.

How do I subscribe?

Subscribing to Guardian Unlimited Crosswords is easy.

1. Go to the Crosswords front page at www.guardian.co.uk/crossword

2. Click on a "subscribe" button

3. Choose your package and/or discount

4. Sign in to Guardian Unlimited, or register with us if you haven't already done so

5. Sign up to Guardian Unlimited Crosswords

6. Pay using our secure payment provider, Worldpay

See our subscription help pages.

What is Guardian Unlimited registration?

You need to be registered with Guardian Unlimited to subscribe to one of our paid-for services.

To register, you need to tell us the email address you want to sign in with, a password, and your country of residence. UK and US users must also give us their postcode or zip code.

See our registration help pages.

Technical requirements

To use Guardian Unlimited Crosswords, you will need a web browser, preferably HTML 4.0 compliant (Netscape 7.0 or better, Internet Explorer 5.0 or better, Mozilla 1.0 or better).

To use interactive features like online completion, save, check and cheat you will need Java and Javascript installed and switched on. If you don't have Java or it doesn't work, you can use the non-interactive Print version. If you can't get Java to work on your machine, please contact the manufacturer of the computer or the helpdesk for the browser you are using.

You will need email to enter the Genius prize crossword.

Important message for Macintosh users: Some users have reported problems using the interactive features of Crosswords with the OSX operating system. We are currently investigating this, but if you have OSX there is a good chance that you will NOT be able to use the interactive functions. Please consider this before subscribing.

Cheating and checking

The cheat option lets you ask for the answer to a clue. Checking looks at the answer you have entered and removes any letters that are wrong.

You can turn on the cheat and check function by pressing the relevant button. A pop-up window will then ask if you're sure you want to turn it on, so you don't cheat by accident!

Blind/PS version

This is designed for blind or partially-sighted users. It is a stripped down text version, which should be easily read by a screen reader.

Feedback and further questions

Please email any comments about the crosswords to crossword.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk.

If you need help or have a subscription query, please email subshelp@guardian.co.uk.