crossword puzzle
noun
: a puzzle in which words that are the answers to clues are written into a pattern of numbered squares that go across and down
My father does the crossword puzzle every morning.
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Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku, word search and arcade games.
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
She was also shown sleeping while holding a crossword puzzle and sitting next to Barker on a yacht.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
The Crossword Book This book is packed with over 350 options for dads who want to exercise their brains or who enjoy the challenge of a crossword puzzle.
—Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2024
The People Magazine crossword puzzle is legendary, bringing you the best in celebrity crossword clues every week in the magazine, on the Game Show Network — and now online!
—Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
Since its invention in 1913, the modern American crossword puzzle has undergone something of a reputational shift, from frivolous distraction to status symbol.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
As both a pastime and a public good, the ideal crossword puzzle is not a test of highbrow sensibilities but, to use Hirsch’s term, an opportunity to improve one’s cultural literacy.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
Around the time they were born in 1924 St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad, the world saw the first Winter Olympic Games in France and the first-ever crossword puzzle was published by Simon & Schuster.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
The result of these various efforts may be to rediscover the woman in the crossword puzzle—the housewife, the feminist, the computer.
—Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
She was also shown sleeping while holding a crossword puzzle and sitting next to Barker on a yacht.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
The Crossword Book This book is packed with over 350 options for dads who want to exercise their brains or who enjoy the challenge of a crossword puzzle.
—Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2024
The People Magazine crossword puzzle is legendary, bringing you the best in celebrity crossword clues every week in the magazine, on the Game Show Network — and now online!
—Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
Since its invention in 1913, the modern American crossword puzzle has undergone something of a reputational shift, from frivolous distraction to status symbol.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
As both a pastime and a public good, the ideal crossword puzzle is not a test of highbrow sensibilities but, to use Hirsch’s term, an opportunity to improve one’s cultural literacy.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
Around the time they were born in 1924 St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad, the world saw the first Winter Olympic Games in France and the first-ever crossword puzzle was published by Simon & Schuster.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
The result of these various efforts may be to rediscover the woman in the crossword puzzle—the housewife, the feminist, the computer.
—Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
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“Crossword puzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crossword%20puzzle. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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