crossword puzzle
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈkrɔsˌwɜrd ˈpʌzəl/
:
crucigrama
- Peg: Why don't you go home and do some crossword puzzles?
- do a crossword puzzle
- use crossword puzzles
- activities such as crossword puzzles
This is actually the The New York Times crossword puzzle that answers all the questions.
- This is actually the The New York Times crossword puzzle that answers all the questions.
- And so we're all doing our crossword puzzles.
- That's FI double L that solves crossword puzzles.
- Well, why do so many people start each day with a crossword puzzle?
- And Will Shortz, who's the star of our film, is sort of the star of the crossword puzzle world, if you will.
- And then you that's where Doug cut to Merle Regal, who's a very famous crossword puzzle constructor.
- I can guarantee you the cryptic crossword puzzles were ace in ancient Greek times.
- And then we're thinking, oh, maybe it's crossword puzzles.
- I launched my Wordle results, connections, results, New York Times crossword puzzle.
- But when you, when it, when it gets translated into running terms and you're actually running this crossword puzzle or this Rubik's Cube.
- Yeah, and it's just a lot of crossword puzzles, you know, I do hear brain, and I keep pitching myself up.
- Now I have to do train a crossword puzzle and instead of five, it doesn't, it doesn't work like that.
Examples
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Mr. Morrow was doing the crossword puzzle in the paper.
Fiction book (1995) -
One morning, Charlotte sits up in bed doing the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle.
Fiction book (2000) -
Watch him do the crossword puzzle.
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I bet they got that right out of The New York Times crossword puzzle.
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I'm doing a crossword puzzle.
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The woman was quite simply stuck on a clue in the crossword puzzle spread before her.
Fiction book (2002) -
Every morning she worked the crossword puzzle in the Memphis paper until each block was covered.
Fiction book (1995) -
My mom always does crossword puzzles so I've been doing them forever.
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At the next desk, Ricci sits working on a crossword puzzle.
Fiction book (2001) -
I enjoy solving the crossword puzzle in the newspaper every Sunday.
Synonyms
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2.3
A puzzle where you fill words into a grid using numbered clues
How Hard
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2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from the constituents: 'crossword' denotes a grid-based word puzzle and 'puzzle' signals a game/problem type, so a 'crossword puzzle' is immediately understood as a puzzle of the crossword type. This compositional hyponymic relation (type-of) is common cross-linguistically and would be accessible to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Crossword puzzle comes from the way the parts cross and word work together: words run across and down in a grid of squares and meet, sharing letters like streets that cross. That's why it means 'a word puzzle' where you fill words from clues into the squares so the letters fit together.