Black Ink 2.1.9 is now available on the Black Ink site and has been submitted for review to the Mac App Store. This update addresses a bug with New York Times puzzle importing that caused today’s puzzle, October 31, 2021, to be imported wrong. If you already imported today’s puzzle you will need to delete […]

Black Ink 2.1.8 is now available on the Black Ink site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store. This update fixes a problem in which some New York Times puzzles with circled squares did not appear correctly. If you already downloaded a puzzle such as today’s September 12 puzzle, you can delete the […]

Black Ink 2.1.7 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store. Last week, the New York Times shocked the crossword community by announcing that they would drop support for the Across Lite download format in just one week. What a week it’s been! As I write this on Tuesday […]

Black Ink 2.1.5 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store. This update addresses a long-standing shortcoming of the app that prevented puzzles in the Across Lite (.puz) format from being openable in Across Lite, or other apps that open such puzzles but verify the internal “checksum” values in […]