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in what direction to fill in answers. Arrows can be omitted from clue cells, in which case the convention is for the answer to go horizontally to the right of the clue cell, or – if the clue cell is split vertically and contains two clues – for the answer to go horizontally to the right for the top clue and vertically below for the bottom clue. This style of grid is also used in several countries other than Sweden, often in magazines, but also in daily newspapers. The grid often has one or more photos replacing a block of squares as a clue to one or several answers; for example, the name of a pop star, or some kind of rhyme or phrase that can be associated with the photo. These puzzles usually have no symmetry in the grid but instead often have a common theme (literature, music, nature, geography, events of a special year, etc.) This tradition prospered already in the mid-1900s, in family magazines and sections of newspapers. Then the specialised magazines took off. Around the turn of the millennium, approximately half a dozen Swedish magazine publishers produced specialised crossword magazines, totaling more than twenty titles, often published on a monthly basis. The oldest extant crossword magazine published in Swedish is

1582: 2726:, crosswords are usually oblong and larger than French ones, 13×21 being a common size. As in France, they usually are not symmetrical; two-letter words are allowed; and the number of shaded squares is minimized. Nouns (including surnames) and the infinitive or past participle of verbs are allowed, as are abbreviations; in larger crosswords, it is customary to put at the center of the grid phrases made of two to four words, or forenames and surnames. A variant of Italian crosswords does not use shaded squares: words are delimited by thickening the grid. Another variant starts with a blank grid: the solver must insert both the answers and the shaded squares, and across and down clues are either ordered by row and column or not ordered at all. 278: 2888:

word); (4) not occupy too much of the puzzle (generally speaking, 16% of the puzzle is considered a rough limit for the percentage of black squares); (5) ensure that the entire puzzle has "all-over interlock"—that is, that the black squares do not "cut" the puzzle into separate sections; and (6) ensure that (generally) no non-theme entry is longer than any of the theme entries. In addition, it is considered advisable to minimize the number of so-called "cheater" black squares, i.e., black squares whose removal would not change the word count of the puzzle but which make it easier to fill by shortening the length of the words therein.

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American puzzle might have two 15-letter entries and two 13-letter entries that could be arranged appropriately in the grid (e.g., one 15-letter entry in the third row, and the other symmetrically in the 13th row; one 13-letter entry starting in the first square of the 6th row and the other ending in the last square of the 10th row). The theme must not only be funny or interesting, but also internally consistent. In the April 26, 2005 by Sarah Keller mentioned above, the five themed entries contained in the different parts of a tree: SQUAREROOT, TABLELEAF, WARDROBETRUNK, BRAINSTEM, and BANKBRANCH. In this puzzle, CHARTER OAK would

1860: 1129: 2668: 2074:(1993–present), this percentage has gone down, with women constructors (including collaborations) accounting for only 15% of puzzles in both 2014 and 2015, 17% of puzzles published in 2016, 13%—the lowest in the "Shortz Era"—in 2017, and 16% in 2018. Several reasons have been given for the decline in women constructors. One explanation is that the gender imbalance in crossword construction is similar to that in related fields, such as 3059: 1281:. Here, "significant" is the straight definition (appearing here at the end of the clue), "to bring worker into the country" is the wordplay definition, and "may prove" serves to link the two. Note that in a cryptic clue, there is almost always only one answer that fits both the definition and the wordplay, so that when one sees the answer, one knows that it is the right answer—although it can sometimes be a challenge to figure out 2656: 2680: 2696: 1428:

intersections of words are valid. Fill-in crosswords may often have longer word length than regular crosswords to make the crossword easier to solve, and symmetry is often disregarded. Fitting together several long words is easier than fitting together several short words because there are fewer possibilities for how the long words intersect together. These types of crosswords are also used to demonstrate

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kept to a minimum in more difficult puzzles, where two obscure words should never be allowed to cross (known in crossword jargon as a "Natick")(and, ideally, where the obscure word would be of interest to most solvers—a genus of little-known water bugs would not be a good choice); (4) uncommon abbreviations and variant foreign spellings should be avoided, as well as the use of

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but how to fit together partially built-up clumps of answers into larger clumps with properly set shaded squares. Some of these puzzles follow the traditional symmetry rule, others have left-right mirror symmetry, and others have greater levels of symmetry or outlines suggesting other shapes. If the symmetry of the grid is given, the solver can use it to his/her advantage.

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One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden meaning. This can be a double definition, an anagram, homophone, or words backwards. There are eight main types of clues in cryptic crosswords.

2091:. However, it has also been argued that this explanation risks propagating myths about gender and technology. Some have argued that the relative absence of women constructors and editors has had an influence on the content of the puzzles themselves, and that clues and entries can be insensitive regarding language related to gender and race. 1404:(all letters of the alphabet appear in the solution). As these puzzles are closer to codes than quizzes, they require a different skillset; many basic cryptographic techniques, such as determining likely vowels, are key to solving these. Given their pangrammaticity, a frequent start point is locating where 'Q' and 'U' must appear. 1326:. The straight definition is "bigotry", and the wordplay explains itself, indicated by the word "take" (since one word "takes" another): "aside" means APART and I'd is simply ID, so APART and ID "take" HE (which is, in cryptic crossword usage, a perfectly good synonym for "him"). The answer could be elucidated as APART(HE)ID. 2742:(without vowels). Further, since Hebrew is written from right to left, but Roman numerals are used and written from left to right, there can be an ambiguity in the description of lengths of entries, particularly for multi-word phrases. Different compilers and publications use differing conventions for both of these issues. 1644:

or failure in any given attempt is equally irrelevant to mental development." A clergyman called the working of crossword puzzles "the mark of a childish mentality" and said, "There is no use for persons to pretend that working one of the puzzles carries any intellectual value with it." However, another wrote a complete

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there. Numbers are almost never repeated; numbered cells are numbered consecutively, usually from left to right across each row, starting with the top row and proceeding downward. Some Japanese crosswords are numbered from top to bottom down each column, starting with the leftmost column and proceeding right.

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complained of the "sinful waste in the utterly futile finding of words the letters of which will fit into a prearranged pattern, more or less complex. This is not a game at all, and it hardly can be called a sport ... get nothing out of it except a primitive form of mental exercise, and success

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form, that typically consists of two parts. The first is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer. The second part is a long series of numbered blanks and spaces, representing a quotation or other text, into which the answers for the clues fit.

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The first crosswords with strictly cryptic clues appeared in the 1920s, pioneered by Edward Powys Mathers. He established the principle of cryptic crossword clues. Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways.

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Some crossword designers have started including a metapuzzle, or "meta" for short, a second puzzle within the completed puzzle. After the player has correctly solved the crossword puzzle in the usual fashion, the solution forms the basis of a second puzzle. The designer usually includes a hint to the

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being French for "summer"), rather than a nice (pleasant) summer. This clue also takes advantage of the fact that in American-style crosswords, the initial letter of a clue is always capitalized, whether or not it is a proper noun. In this clue, the initial capitalization further obscures whether the

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The constraints of the American-style grid (in which every letter is checked) often require a fair number of answers not to be dictionary words. As a result, the following ways to clue abbreviations and other non-words, although they can be found in "straight" British crosswords, are much more common

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in computer science because there are many possible arrangements to be checked against the rules of construction. Any given set of answers might have zero, one, or multiple legal arrangements. Modern open source libraries exist that attempt to efficiently generate legal arrangements from a given set

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by those more familiar with cryptic puzzles, are often simple definitions of the answers. Often, a straight clue is not in itself sufficient to distinguish between several possible answers, either because multiple synonymous answers may fit or because the clue itself is a homonym (e.g., "Lead" as in

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puzzles also set a common pattern for American crosswords by increasing in difficulty throughout the week: their Monday puzzles are the easiest and the puzzles get harder each day until Saturday. Their larger Sunday puzzle is about the same level of difficulty as a weekday-size Thursday puzzle. This

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In 1998 in Jakarta, publisher Elex Media Komputindo (Gramedia Group) published a crossword software entitled "Teka-Teki Silang Komputer" (Computerized Crossword Puzzle ) in diskette form. It is the first Crossword Puzzle software published in Indonesia. Created by Sukmono Bayu Adhi, the software is

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Swedish crosswords are mainly in the illustrated (photos or drawings), in-line clue style typical of the "Swedish-style grid". The "Swedish-style" grid (picture crosswords) uses no clue numbers. Instead, clues are contained in the cells which do not contain answers, with arrows indicating where and

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In a diagramless crossword, often called a diagramless for short or, in the UK, a skeleton crossword or carte blanche, the grid offers overall dimensions, but the locations of most of the clue numbers and shaded squares are unspecified. A solver must deduce not only the answers to individual clues,

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their answers in parentheses after the clue, which is especially useful with multi-word answers. Certain signs indicate different forms of wordplay. Solving cryptics is harder to learn than standard crosswords, as learning to interpret the different types of cryptic clues can take some practice. In

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by Matt Gaffney gives the clue "This week's contest answer is a three-word phrase whose second word is 'or'." The crossword solution includes the entries "BROUGHT TO NAUGHT", "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT", "CAUGHT A STRAIGHT", and "HEIGHT AND WEIGHT", which are all three-word phrases with two words ending in

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consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to separate

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Originally Petherbridge called the two dimensions of the crossword puzzle "Horizontal" and "Vertical". Among various numbering schemes, the standard became that in which only the start squares of each word were numbered, from left to right and top to bottom. "1 Horizontal" and "1 Vertical" and the

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Modern constructors frequently (although not always) use software to speed up the task. Several programs are available, of which the most widely accepted is Crossword Compiler. These programs, although they cannot create themes and cannot distinguish between "good" fill (fun, interesting words vs.

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French-language crosswords are smaller than English-language ones, and not necessarily square: there are usually 8–13 rows and columns, totaling 81–130 squares. They need not be symmetric and two-letter words are allowed, unlike in most English-language puzzles. Compilers strive to minimize use of

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When an answer is composed of multiple or hyphenated words, some crosswords (especially in Britain) indicate the structure of the answer. For example, "(3,5)" after a clue indicates that the answer is composed of a three-letter word followed by a five-letter word. Most American-style crosswords do

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The grid is then filled with suitable words, keeping in mind that (1) no word can be repeated in the grid (with the exception of prepositions or articles); (2) profanity or graphic or "unpleasant" words are generally not allowed; (3) obscurity is strongly discouraged in easy puzzles and should be

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In typical themed American-style crosswords, the theme is created first, as a set of symmetric long across answers will be needed around which the grid can be created. Since the grid will typically have 180-degree rotational symmetry, the answers will need to be also: thus a typical 15×15 square

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aunt. The publisher was initially skeptical that the book would succeed, and only printed a small run at first. The book was promoted with an included pencil, and "This odd-looking book with a pencil attached to it" was an instant hit, leading crossword puzzles to become a craze of 1924. To help

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reported that "The latest craze to strike libraries is the crossword puzzle", and complained that when "the puzzle 'fans' swarm to the dictionaries and encyclopedias so as to drive away readers and students who need these books in their daily work, can there be any doubt of the Library's duty to

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In cryptic crosswords, the clues are puzzles in themselves. A typical clue contains both a definition at the beginning or end of the clue and wordplay, which provides a way to manufacture the word indicated by the definition, and which may not parse logically. Cryptics usually give the length of

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consist mainly of solid regions of uninterrupted white squares, separated more sparsely by shaded squares. Every letter is "checked" (i.e. is part of both an "across" word and a "down" word) and usually each answer must contain at least three letters. In such puzzles shaded squares are typically

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The black squares must be arranged so as to (1) ensure there are no two-letter words; (2) form 180-degree rotational symmetry (so that if the grid is turned upside-down, the pattern of black squares remains the same); (3) ensure that every letter is checked (appears in both an across and a down

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Owing to the large number of words ending with a vowel, Italian crossword-makers have perhaps the most difficult task. The right margin and the bottom can be particularly difficult to put together. From such a perspective, Swedish crossword-makers have a far easier task. Especially in the large

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of London, yours is the only journal of prominence that has never succumbed to the lure of the cross-word puzzle" and said that "The craze—the fad—stage has passed, but there are still people numbering it to the millions who look for their daily cross-word puzzle as regularly as for the weather

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entitled "Movie of a Man Doing the Cross-Word Puzzle", with an enthusiast muttering "87 across 'Northern Sea Bird'!!??!?!!? Hm-m-m starts with an 'M', second letter is 'U' ... I'll look up all the words starting with an 'M-U ...' mus-musi-mur-murd—Hot Dog! Here 'tis! Murre!" In 1923 a

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Typically clues appear outside the grid, divided into an across list and a down list; the first cell of each entry contains a number referenced by the clue lists. For example, the answer to a clue labeled "17 Down" is entered with the first letter in the cell numbered "17", proceeding down from

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Modern software includes large databases of clues and answers, allowing the computer to randomly select words for the puzzle, potentially with guidance from the user as to the theme or a specific set of words to pick with greater probability. Many serious users add words to the database as an

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There are numerous other forms of wordplay found in cryptic clues. Backwards words can be indicated by words like "climbing", "retreating", or "ascending" (depending on whether it is an across clue or a down clue) or by directional indicators such as "going North" (meaning upwards) or "West"

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for those letters: cells that share matching numbers are filled with matching letters, and no two numbers stand for the same letter. All resultant entries must be valid words. Usually, at least one number's letter is given at the outset. English-language cipher crosswords are nearly always

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A fill-in crossword (also known as crusadex or cruzadex) features a grid and the full list of words to be entered in that grid, but does not give explicit clues for where each word goes. The challenge is figuring out how to integrate the list of words together within the grid so that all

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Substantial variants from the usual forms exist. Two of the common ones are barred crosswords, which use bold lines between squares (instead of shaded squares) to separate answers, and circular designs, with answers entered either radially or in concentric circles. "Free form" crosswords

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have recently published higher percentages of women than that puzzle. In the spring of 2018, Patti Varol and Amy Reynaldo organized and edited a pack of 18 puzzles constructed by women called "Women of Letters". Inspired by this, Laura Braunstein and Tracy Bennett launched

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Crossword clues are generally consistent with the solutions. For instance, clues and their solutions should always agree in tense, number, and degree. If a clue is in the past tense, so is the answer: thus "Traveled on horseback" would be a valid clue for the solution

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the "Sunday Morning Breakfast Test," which means that every entry in a crossword should be sufficiently family-friendly. The first New York Times crossword editor, Margaret Farrar, went further and once wrote that crosswords should avoid "death, disease, war and

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has led U.S. solvers to use the day of the week as a shorthand when describing how hard a puzzle is: e.g. an easy puzzle may be referred to as a "Monday" or a "Tuesday", a medium-difficulty puzzle as a "Wednesday", and a truly difficult puzzle as a "Saturday".

2773:- they are rarely mixed in a single crossword puzzle. The design of Japanese crossword grids often follows two additional rules: that shaded cells may not share a side (i.e. they may not be orthogonally contiguous) and that the corner squares must be white. 306:-like structure, with a higher percentage of shaded squares (around 25%), leaving about half the letters in an answer unchecked. For example, if the top row has an answer running all the way across, there will often be no across answers in the second row. 698:

Many American crossword puzzles feature a "theme" consisting of a number of long entries (generally three to five in a standard 15×15-square "weekday-size" puzzle) that share some relationship, type of pun, or other element in common. As an example, the

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Crossword construction in modern times usually involves the use of software. Constructors choose a theme (except for themeless puzzles), place the theme answers in a grid which is usually symmetric, fill in the rest of the grid, and then write clues.

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In most forms of the puzzle, the first letters of each correct clue answer, read in order from clue A on down the list, will spell out the author of the quote and the title of the work it is taken from; this can be used as an additional solving aid.

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books that it began in 1924, currently under the editorship of John M. Samson. The original series ended in 2007 after 258 volumes. Since 2008, these books are now in the Mega series, appearing three times per year and each featuring 300 puzzles.

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magazine noted that nine Manhattan dailies and fourteen other big newspapers were carrying crosswords, and quoted opposing views as to whether "This crossword craze will positively end by June!" or "The crossword puzzle is here to stay!" In 1925,

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suggested that lack of confidence was a barrier. Several approaches have been suggested to develop more women in the field, including mentoring novice women constructors and encouraging women constructors to publish their puzzles independently.

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Cipher crosswords were invented in Germany in the 19th century. Published under various trade names (including Code Breakers, Code Crackers, and Kaidoku), and not to be confused with cryptic crosswords (ciphertext puzzles are commonly known as

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requires diagramless puzzles to be 17×17. The odd number of squares on a side ensures that achieving symmetry is easier; with even-numbered puzzles the central block of four squares makes constructing a symmetrical puzzle considerably more

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With the different types of wordplay and definition possibilities, the composer of a cryptic puzzle is presented with many different possible ways to clue a given answer. Most desirable are clues that are clean but deceptive, with a smooth

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These are common crossword variants that vary more from a regular crossword than just an unusual grid shape or unusual clues; these crossword variants may be based on different solving principles and require a different solving skill set.

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expression of personal creativity or for use in a desired theme. Software can also be used to assist the user in finding words for a specific spot in an arrangement by quickly searching through the dictionary for all words that fit.

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is normally written with only the consonants; vowels are either understood, or entered as diacritical marks. This can lead to ambiguities in the entry of some words, and compilers generally specify that answers are to be entered in

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advised that "Usually the indicator will be an adjective (drunk, fancy, unusual, and so on); an adverb (badly, excitedly, unexpectedly); a past participle (altered, broken, jumbled) or indeed any phrase giving a similar meaning."

313:, so that its pattern appears the same if the paper is turned upside down. Most puzzle designs also require that all white cells be orthogonally contiguous (that is, connected in one mass through shared sides, to form a single 321:("criss-cross" puzzles), which have simple, asymmetric designs, are often seen on school worksheets, children's menus, and other entertainment for children. Grids forming shapes other than squares are also occasionally used. 1485:

The arroword is a variant of a crossword that does not have as many black squares as a true crossword, but has arrows inside the grid, with clues preceding the arrows. It has been called the most popular word puzzle in many

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inaugural issue, from 1925, the "Jottings About Town" section observed, "Judging from the number of solvers in the subway and 'L' trains, the crossword puzzle bids fair to become a fad with New Yorkers." Also in 1925, the

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In principle, each cryptic clue is usually sufficient to define its answer uniquely, so it should be possible to answer each clue without use of the grid. In practice, the use of checks is an important aid to the solver.

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The compensation structure of crosswords generally entails authors selling all rights to their puzzles upon publication, and as a result receiving no royalties from republication of their work in books or other forms.

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has a wife ordering her husband to run out and "rescue the papers ... the part I want is blowing down the street." "What is it you're so keen about?" "The Cross-Word Puzzle. Hurry, please, that's a good boy." In

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From their origin in New York, crosswords have spread to many countries and languages. In languages other than English, the status of diacritics varies according to the orthography of the particular language, thus:

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that embodied most of the features of the modern genre. This puzzle is frequently cited as the first crossword puzzle, and Wynne as the inventor. An illustrator later reversed the "word-cross" name to "cross-word".

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In the late 1990s, the transition began from mostly hand-created arrangements to computer-assisted, which creators generally say has allowed authors to produce more interesting and creative puzzles, reducing

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and other outlets. Another explanation is that computer-assisted construction and the increased influence of computational approaches in generating word lists may be making crossword construction more like

1799:, another Grand Inquisitor. Cryptic crosswords are popular in Britain, some British Commonwealth nations, and in a few other countries. Many British newspapers publish both standard and cryptic crosswords. 1061:, where the answer to one clue forms part of another clue, in which it is referred to by number and direction. E.g., a puzzle might have 1-across clued as "Central character in The Lord of the Rings" = 770:

Compound themes, where the starts or ends of the theme entries can all precede or follow another word, which is given elsewhere in the puzzle. For example, a puzzle with theme entries that begin with

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character is treated as a full syllable and is rarely written with a smaller character. Even cipher crosswords have a Japanese equivalent, although pangrammaticity does not apply. Crosswords with

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Another common clue type is the "hidden clue" or "container", where the answer is hidden in the text of the clue itself. For example, "Made a dug-out, buried, and passed away (4)" is solved by

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be an appropriate entry, as all the other entries contain different parts of a tree, not the name of a kind of tree. Similarly, FAMILY TREE would not be appropriate unless it were used as a

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cartoon about "The Cross-Word Mania". A man phones his doctor in the middle of the night, asking for "the name of a bodily disorder of seven letters, of which the second letter must be 'N'".

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cryptogram as the theme; the key to breaking the cipher is the answer to 1 across. Another unusual theme requires the solver to use the answer to a clue as another clue. The answer to

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In addition, partial answers are allowed in American-style crosswords, where the answer represents part of a longer phrase. For example, the clue "Mind your _____ Qs" gives the answer

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There are several types of wordplay used in cryptics. One is straightforward definition substitution using parts of a word. For example, in one puzzle by Mel Taub, the answer

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Abbreviations, the use of a foreign language, variant spellings, or other unusual word tricks are indicated in the clue. A crossword creator might choose to clue the answer

556:, etc.) also contain colloquial answers, i.e., entries in the puzzle grid that try to replicate everyday colloquial language. In such a puzzle one might see phrases such as 1144:, had a clue for 39 across that read "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper, with 43 Across (!)." The answer for 43 across was ELECTED; depending on the outcome of that day's 1094:

Friday crossword has featured a crossword contest metapuzzle, with the prize of a WSJ mug going to a reader randomly chosen from among those submitting the correct answer.

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I had created what in crossword jargon is called a Natick, an unjustified intersection of two obscure answers, leaving the solver with no hope but to guess at the solution

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promote its books, Simon & Schuster also founded the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America, which began the process of developing standards for puzzle design.

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was the first newspaper to publish a crossword on November 2, 1924, a Wynne puzzle adapted for the UK. The first crossword in Britain, according to Tony Augarde in his

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set the first crossword to use entirely cryptic clues, originally just for the enjoyment of his friends, one of whom, without permission, submitted it to the Saturday

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Generally, most American puzzles are 15×15 squares; if another size, they typically have an odd number of rows and columns: e.g., 21×21 for "Sunday-size" puzzles;

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in the 1980s. The earliest software relied on people to input a list of fill words and clues, and automatically maps the answers onto a suitable grid. This is a

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which mark different sounds; although the difference between the short/long pairs of letters is a distinctive feature in Hungarian. Digraphs fill two squares.

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finally began to publish a crossword puzzle on 15 February 1942, spurred on by the idea that the puzzle could be a welcome distraction from the harsh news of

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Many puzzles feature clues involving wordplay which are to be taken metaphorically or in some sense other than their literal meaning, requiring some form of

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it is the right answer. A good cryptic clue should provide a fair and exact definition of the answer, while at the same time being deliberately misleading.

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Addition themes, where theme entries are created by adding a letter, letters, or word(s) to an existing word or phrase. For example, "Crucial pool shot?" =

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A cross-figure or crossnumber is the numerical analogy of a crossword, in which the solutions to the clues are numbers instead of words. Clues are usually

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puzzle by Ben Tausig had four squares which led to correct answers reading both across and down if solvers entered either "M" or "F". The puzzle's theme,

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these terms commonly became "across" and "down" and notations for clues could either use the words or the letters "A" and "D", with or without hyphens.

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to fill in are also produced, but in far smaller number as it takes far more effort to construct one. Despite Japanese having three writing forms -

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in the part of a tree as opposed to beginning with it, though the puzzle could certainly be changed to have a mix of words in different positions.

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Some puzzle grids contain more than one correct answer for the same set of clues. These are called Schrödinger or quantum puzzles, alluding to the

600:), while the use of foreign language or a foreign place name within the clue indicates that the answer is also in a foreign language. For example, 6157: 1749:. The editors approached Mathers for more puzzles, and published eleven more of these novel cryptic crosswords. Upon the demise of the Saturday 525:

A question mark at the end of clue usually signals that the clue/answer combination involves some sort of pun or wordplay, e.g., "Grateful?" =

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respectively. Both are available as paid supplements on Mondays and Tuesdays, as part of the ongoing competition between the two newspapers.

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Capitalization of answer letters is conventionally ignored; crossword puzzles are typically filled in, and their answer sheets published, in

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Quote themes, featuring a famous quote broken up into parts to fit in the grid (and usually clued as "Quote, part 1", "Quote, part 2", etc.)

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was published in 2022. On February 8, 2023, they announced to subscribers that 2023 would be their final year as a subscription service.

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The above is an example of a category theme, where the theme elements are all members of the same set. Other types of themes include:

5464: 5451: 5113: 3026: 2258: 2175: 1530:" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's puzzle was a four-by-four grid with no shaded squares; it included horizontal and vertical clues. 1217: 1164:, was revealed at 37 across in the center of the puzzle: "Having a variable identity, as suggested by four squares in this puzzle." 951: 482: 115: 2142: 2114:

raised over $ 30,000 in its initial Kickstarter campaign, and began publishing puzzles on January 17, 2019. A book of 100 puzzles,

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Once a consistent, appropriate theme has been chosen, a grid is designed around that theme, following a set of basic principles:

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to establish the correct answer with certainty. For example, the answer to the clue "PC key" for a three-letter answer could be

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Another tradition in puzzle design (in North America, India, and Britain particularly) is that the grid should have 180-degree

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By the 1920s, the crossword phenomenon was starting to attract notice. In October 1922, newspapers published a comic strip by

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with four or even three black squares. Rather than numbering the individual clues, the rows and columns are numbered as on a

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Crossword Puzzle Series has published many unusual themed crosswords. "Rosetta Stone", by Sam Bellotto Jr., incorporates a

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in 2016 for constructing highest number of crosswords in Indian regional languages. In 2019 his name has mentioned in the

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has a number of clueing competitions where contestants all submit clues for the same word and a judge picks the best one.

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dailies and periodicals. The grid system is similar to the British style and two-letter words are usually not allowed.

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picture crosswords, both conjugation of verbs and declension of adjectives and nouns are allowed. A Swedish clue like

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The fewest shaded squares in a 15x15 American crossword is 17 (leaving 208 white spaces), set by the July 27, 2012

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fill two squares, although in some old crosswords (from prior to the 1996 spelling reform) they filled one square.

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Anniversary or tribute themes, commemorating a specific person, place, or event. For example, on October 7, 2011

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dull obscurity), do speed up the process and will allow the constructor to realize if they have hit a dead end.

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The double meaning is commonly used as another form of wordplay. For example, "Cat's tongue (7)" is solved by

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Embedded words are another common trick in cryptics. The clue "Bigotry aside, I'd take him (9)" is solved by

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in the United States. Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine

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can be indicated by "nought", "nothing", "zero", or "a ring" (since it visually resembles one); the letter

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Non-dictionary phrases are also allowed in answers. Thus, the clue "Mocked" could result in the grid entry

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are often one of several standard sizes. For example, many weekday newspaper puzzles (such as the American

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Fill-in-the-blank clues are often the easiest in a puzzle and a good place to start solving, e.g., "_____

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crossword puzzles has been written since at least 1976; one popular example was Crossword Magic for the

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is given the clue "To bring worker into the country may prove significant". The explanation is that to

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Crosswords in England during the 19th century were of an elementary kind, apparently derived from the

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might be clued as "New York to Washington DC dir". Similarly, a clue such as "Right on the map" means

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Subtraction themes, the reverse of the above, where letters are removed to make a new word or phrase.

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In 1944, Allied security officers were disturbed by the appearance, in a series of crosswords in

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Rebus themes, where multiple letters or even symbols occupy a single square in the puzzle (e.g.,

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entries. The first white square in each entry is typically numbered to correspond to its clue.

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The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief

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The Compleat Cruciverbalist: Or How to Solve and Compose Crossword Puzzles for Fun and Profit

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Crossword puzzle payments for standard 15×15 puzzles from the major outlets range from $ 50 (

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can be put in the mouth" = "the spoon"), as the definite form of a noun includes declension.

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Not all of the attention drawn to the crossword puzzle fad was positive: A 1924 editorial in

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puzzler appeared only online. In 2010, Cox and Rathvon's efforts began to appear monthly in

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clues to which the answer is a number or year. There are also numerical fill-in crosswords.

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were influential in the first few decades of puzzle-making, and women constructors such as

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puzzle, increased public interest in crosswords. It highlighted attendees of Will Shortz's

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is filled in, giving at least one of the letters, the correct answer cannot be determined.

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archived in the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia (Salemba Library, Jakarta).

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is also well known for its crossword puzzles. Crosswords are published regularly in most

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like were names for the clues, the cross words, or the grid locations, interchangeably.

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limited to about one-sixth of the total. Crossword grids elsewhere, such as in Britain,

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to be ahead in a contest or "Lead" as in the element), so the solver must make use of

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The lowest word count in a published weekday-size 15x15 puzzle is the June 29, 2013

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Barred grid where bold bars are used instead of shaded blocks to separate the words

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in the 1910s. Many variants of crosswords are popular around the world, including

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regularly featured a cryptic crossword "Puzzler" by the husband and wife team of

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crosswords, diacritics are respected, as they form separate letters (graphemes).

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abilities, such as finding solutions to the puzzle based on a set of determined

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The cryptic crossword was imported to the US in 1968 by composer and lyricist

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Crossword grids such as those appearing in most North American newspapers and

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clue is referring to "nice" as in "pleasant" or "Nice" as in the French city.

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Inkubator Crosswords: 100 Audacious Puzzles by Women and Nonbinary Creators,

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letter checked with a non-capitalizable letter in the intersecting clue.

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A N Prahlada Rao, crossword constructor from India, has recorded in the

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who had died on October 5. Theme entries related to Jobs' life included

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STEM fields in which women are underrepresented for a number of factors

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and other notable crossword enthusiasts, including former US president

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Finalists competing in a crossword competition in New York City in 2019

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Synonym themes, where the theme entries all contain synonyms, e.g., a

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occupy a separate square, different from that of the previous letter.

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Enthusiasts have compiled a number of record-setting achievements in

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were selected after doing well in a crossword-solving competition.

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crossword; because of the writing system, one syllable (typically

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The Philadelphia Inquirer (archived at crosswordtournament.com)

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for the theme (frequently clued with a phrase along the lines "

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is normally used. See the monthly magazine of Latin crosswords

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puzzle featuring a set of theme entries that contain the words

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A person works on a Russian-language crossword puzzle in the

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Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents

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Cryptic crossword clues: Generating text with hidden meaning

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The phrase "cross word puzzle" was first written in 1862 by

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means "to bring into the country", the "worker" is a worker

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noted, with approval, a scathing critique of crosswords by

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

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male constructors than females submit puzzles on spec to

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Crossword puzzles became a regular weekly feature in the

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Most widely distributed American crosswords today (e.g.,

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shaded squares. A black-square usage of 10% is typical;

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Another type of wordplay used in cryptics is the use of

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could be clued as "Italia's capital", whereas the clue "

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crossword of April 26, 2005 by Sarah Keller, edited by

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is considered one letter, filling one square, and the

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The first book of crossword puzzles was published by

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The Daily Telegraph – 80 Years of Cryptic Crosswords

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Digraph (orthography) § Digraphs versus letters

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all diacritical markings are ignored. Words such as

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The themed crossword puzzle was invented in 1958 by

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It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled " 1240:A lattice-style grid common for cryptic crosswords 4053:"There Goes My Crossword Puzzle, Get Up Please". 3159:, a 2006 documentary film about crossword puzzles 1349:might be clued as "a cross", or "ten" (as in the 991:If taken literally, "Start of spring" could clue 5357:""Dr.Fill" Vies for Crossword Solving Supremacy" 4438:"World Records 2019 | Kalams World Records" 1775:cryptic crossword setter followed his example. 624:'s capital" would indicate the English spelling 5039:"Krysset – klassikern med kvalitet och kunskap" 4393:"Friday, July 27, 2012 crossword by Joe Krozel" 4185:Topics of the Times: Sees Harm, Not Education" 3894:"Storia delle parole crociate e del cruciverba" 2826:) publish a weekly crossword supplement, named 2548:, diacritics are ignored with the exception of 2371:in Spanish: for instance, in French, the final 6148:D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm 5208: 5206: 4243:"The Strange World of the Crossword (excerpt)" 4081:Report of the New York Public Library for 1924 3983:"How the Crossword Became an American Pastime" 1906:D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm 1783:, a Grand Inquisitor in Castile. The current 1341:can be indicated by "me" or "one;" the letter 999:, the spelled-out form of the starting letter 786:clued as "Word that can follow the start of ". 5533: 4683:"The NYT Crossword Is Old and Kind Of Racist" 4593:. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017 4585:"The Crossword Puzzle: Where'd the Women Go?" 4414:"Most Crosswords Created (Regional Language)" 4211:Richard H. (1930), "The Lure of the Puzzle". 3497:"Past WSJ Crossword Contests & Solutions" 3393:What's Gnu? A History of the Crossword Puzzle 3291:"New York Times crossword of October 7, 2011" 2054:have each contributed hundreds of puzzles to 793:crossword commemorated the life of Apple CEO 8: 4198:"All About the Insidious Game of Anagrams", 3825:Poole, David L.; Mackworth, Alan K. (2010). 3228:, Methuen & Co Ltd, London (1966) p. 49. 2012:The record for most crosswords published in 2002:crossword by Joe Krozel, with just 50 words. 1629:in 1924, after a suggestion from co-founder 214:introducing citations to additional sources 3007:. Unsourced material may be challenged and 1675:The term "crossword" first appeared in the 463:. 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