crossword
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈkrɔˌswɜrd/
:
crucigrama
- One morning, Charlotte sits up in bed doing the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle.
- a crossword puzzle
- do a crossword
I always think about crossword puzzles, Sudoku, Wordle.
- I always think about crossword puzzles, Sudoku, Wordle.
- Go hiking Griffith Park, do the crossword puzzle.
- And then, you know, sometimes when I really want like more, I do the full crossword on my phone, right?
- Some intellectual hobbies that you can get onto is reading, chess, puzzle solving like crosswords or sudoku.
- Because he can do a Saturday crossword, although I did have to help him at this AFI.
- We're sitting over there and we are, you know, she's doing a crossword or doing whatever brought her some joy.
- Hi, my girlfriend loves all kinds of puzzles, jigsaws, crosswords, you name it, but hates playing board games or card games.
- And so we're all doing our crossword puzzles.
- I can guarantee you the cryptic crossword puzzles were ace in ancient Greek times.
- And Will Shortz, who's the star of our film, is sort of the star of the crossword puzzle world, if you will.
- Well, why do so many people start each day with a crossword puzzle?
- And then you that's where Doug cut to Merle Regal, who's a very famous crossword puzzle constructor.
- OK, Matt, your program, Doctor Phil crossword solver.
Examples
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I'm doing a crossword puzzle.
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- How about the crossword puzzle?
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Do you know where my crossword book is?
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You can help me with the crossword.
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Without lifting his head, George raised his eyes from the crossword puzzle he was working on.
Fiction book (1991) -
Every morning she worked the crossword puzzle in the Memphis paper until each block was covered.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm afraid my skills are limited to crossword puzzles.
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Derm picks up a filled-in New York Times Sunday Crossword and looks it over.
Fiction book (2000) -
I do crossword puzzles.
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Every Sunday, I enjoy solving the challenging crossword in the newspaper.
Synonyms
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2.1
A game where you write words in a square grid using clues
Compounds
A crossword with clues that are small word puzzles using puns or hidden meanings
How Hard
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crossword comes from the parts cross ('to go across') and word, because the answers 'cross' each other in a grid like roads meeting. That's why a crossword is a puzzle where words meet and share letters.