crossword puzzle
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.
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My girlfriend and I were doing a crossword puzzle online when I got an email alert that 1,500 shots were instantly available in the District of Columbia.
Gene Weingarten: I admit it. Like a lot of people, I had vaccine envy. | Gene Weingarten | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostWhen I first started bouldering—indoors, at a gym in Somerville, Massachusetts—I was struck by how closely my experience sending a problem tracked with how I solve crossword puzzles.
Teammates Garnet Hathaway and Trevor van Riemsdyk have listened to records and done crossword puzzles, respectively.
Capitals’ 2021 calendar features relatable theme, with players at home during pandemic | Scott Allen | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostNow, Kwong, 40, who creates crossword puzzles for the New York Times, has followed with a show that has Zoom audiences downloading quiz packets and solving mind games with him.
With playhouses dark, interactive theater online is lighting things up | Peter Marks | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostLike finishing a crossword puzzle when your plane is crashing.
I have memories of every single crossword puzzle I completed.
The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100: The ‘King of Crossword’ on Its Strange History | Kevin Fallon | December 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt even threatens such veteran horizontally integrated favorites as Scrabble, solitaire, and the crossword puzzle.
Sorry, Folks, Playing Dots Won’t Make You Smarter | Kent Sepkowitz | June 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTReading 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.
British Dictionary definitions for 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 to: crossword
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