crossword puzzle

noun

a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues or definitions are supplied and fitted into correspondingly numbered sets of squares, one letter per square, the words being arranged horizontally or vertically so that most letters form part of two words.

crossword puzzle

/ ˈkrɒsˌwɜːd /

a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern Sometimes shortened tocrossword

1910–15; cross- + word, allegedly for earlier word cross

I have memories of every single crossword puzzle I completed.

It even threatens such veteran horizontally integrated favorites as Scrabble, solitaire, and the crossword puzzle.

Reading Pygmy is like trying to do a crossword puzzle while riding a horse underwater.

He is regularly defined as “Hollywood Hairdresser” by The New York Times crossword puzzle.

Automatic pencil poised, he was scanning the crossword puzzle intently.

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