[stevage]

Also, the rule that you can't repeat a letter for a position with the horizontal word, or two immediate neighbours is just too...finnicky and arbitrary.

[max0563]

Agreed. I actually added the crossword version here https://wordpivot.com/crossword/ but it is FAR harder than I thought. I'm still play testing it.

Also, writing a solver for these things is also surprisingly difficult, but fun!