NYT Crossword Pencil Toggle

On the New York Times' Crossword site, press the Left Shift key to toggle the pencil tool.

NYT Crossword Pencil Toggle

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By: ryanodd

Users: 51

Rating: 4.60

(5)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2024-12-13)

Creation date: 2024-08-21

Risk impact: Low risk impact

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Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
scripting
storage

Size: 29.80K

Email: ry*****@gmail.com

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Are you a New York Times crossword puzzle solver? Tired of using your mouse to click the pencil button every time you aren't sure of an answer? With this extension, simply press the Left Shift key to toggle the pencil tool while solving crosswords on NYT. This key can be be changed in the options menu.

Made with love <3 Feedback is welcome.

User reviews

Handy tool, but can you make the hotkey configurable or set it to something else? Shift+Tab goes to the previous clue, which toggles the pencil too now... Or even ignore the pencil shortcut when shift onkeyup if tab has been pressed since onkeydown EDIT: created a Pull Request on GitHub to add alternatives (shift left, shift right, alt left, alt right, ctrl left, ctrl right) as an option

Thomas Mulder, 2024-12-10

please give option for rebinding the hotkey to something else

Austin Alexander, 2024-11-29

Works exactly as intended. The only thing stopping me from giving 5 stars is the need for an option to reassign the button to any of your choice. Currently it gets frustrating when I use Shift+tab to go back to a previous clue, only for that to enable the pencil as well