Thanks for the update!! It works well.

Now, there is a problem with how the application handles "Today's Crossword" from the NYT (but not the archives)... the current puzzle has the solution scrambled (it's part of the .puz file format specification), and there's no provision in xword to provide the 4-digit unscramble key (and, thus, check your solution) which is provided the following day, when the puzzle is released (in unscrambled form) to the archives.

Obviously, this is beyond the scope of what you're doing, and more along the lines of making changes to the actual xword code so that it handles these files properly. I'll have to dig through my archives and see if I can find the C routine I wrote years ago to determine the scramble code from a given *.puz file... if I can only remember which computer was my "main workstation" at that time....