Wordsearches Take Long Unless You Code

A quite simple Python solution.

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with open('Crossword.txt') as f:
    crossword = f.read().replace(' ','').splitlines()
with open('CrosswordWords.txt') as f:
    words = f.read().splitlines()

count = 0
for word in words:
    for j, line in enumerate(crossword):
        inv_line = line[::-1]
        if word in line:
            count += line.index(word) + j + 2
        elif word in inv_line:
            count += len(inv_line) - inv_line.index(word) + j + 1

print(count)

This provides the answer, which is $\boxed{2086}$ .

In Python.

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words=[word.strip() for word in file('CrosswordWords.txt').readlines()]

reversedWords=[]
for i in range(len(words)):
    reversedWords.append(words[i][::-1])

score=0
for lineNumber, line in enumerate(file('Crossword.txt').readlines()):
    line=''.join(line[:-1].split(' '))
    for word in words:
        p=line.find(word)
        if p!=-1:
           score+=lineNumber+p+2
    for reversedWord in reversedWords:
        p=line.find(reversedWord)
        if p!=-1:
            score+=lineNumber+1+p+len(reversedWord)
print score

Click here to see the full output for the JAVA program I wrote below:

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Simple_Coding {
    public static void main (String args []){
        int maxTotal=0;
        String words [] = new String [13]; 
        words[0] = "-1";
        int count = 0;
        try {
            Scanner fileWords = new Scanner (new File("Crossword2Words.txt"));
            while (fileWords.hasNext()){
                count++;
                words[count] = fileWords.nextLine();
            }

        }catch (Exception e){
            System.out.println(e);
        }

        for (int x = 1; x <= 12; x++){
            String word = words[x];
            String wordReversed = revWord(word);

            try{
                Scanner file = new Scanner (new File ("Crossword2.txt"));
                int row = 0;
                int column = -1;

                while (file.hasNext()){
                    String line = file.nextLine();
                    row++;
                    line = line.replaceAll(" ","");
                    if (line.indexOf(word)>-1){
                        column = line.indexOf(word)+1;
                        System.out.println(word + "\tRow: " + row + "\tColumn: "+column + "\tForwards\tPosition Sum = " + (row+column));
                        maxTotal = maxTotal + row + column;
                    }else if (line.indexOf(wordReversed) > -1){
                        column = line.indexOf(wordReversed)+word.length();
                        System.out.println(word + "\tRow: " + row + "\tColumn: "+column + "\tBackwards\tPosition Sum = " + (row+column));
                        maxTotal = maxTotal + row + column;
                    }
                }

            }catch (Exception e){
                System.out.println(e);
            }
        }
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Final Answer: " + maxTotal);
    }

public static String revWord(String string){
    String value = "";
    for (int x = string.length()-1; x >= 0; x--){
        value += string.charAt(x);
    }
    return value;
    }
}