I'm too lazy to do https://regexcrossword.com/ so I taught a computer how to do them instead.
It works by parsing the regular expression and recursively translating parts of the regular expression to logic constraints, and then asking a solver to find the answer(s).
Download from https://github.com/lvh/regex-crossword
FIXME: explanation
Run the project directly:
$ clj -m lvh.regex-crossword
Run the project's tests (they'll fail until you edit them):
$ clj -A:test
FIXME: listing of options this app accepts.
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- This doesn't know how to deal with backrefs (yet), since backrefs are constraints across lvars. (The logic engine knows how to do that, I just haven't implemented it yet. The real trick is getting the regex part to grok it -- that will probably involve using the regex parse tree to directly constrain lvars, as above.)
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