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Thanks to toonhead_npl's mention of a related project on his blog, I finally whipped together a program to print out .puz files the way I want.

Sometimes it's nice to solve on paper, but AcrossLite maximizes the grid size, which means that the squares change size from one day to the next. Here is a Windows program (NOT Windows Mobile) that lets you pick a directory containing one or more .puz files, select all the ones you want to print at once, and then it prints them two to a page at a constant size. LIMITATIONS: Only works for 15x15 puzzles -- a larger grid will simply overflow the available space. I'll get to that. If a clue word is too wide it will overflow the column rather than hyphenate. REQUIREMENTS: You must have the Arial and Georgia fonts installed. Requires .NET 2.0 runtime. FEATURES: Includes the "notepad" at the top of the clues and draws circled squares.

Note to lucretia_borgia -- if you have mono installed on your Linux box, this may be an answer to your question "How can I print AcrossLite puzzles in Linux?"