crossword
(krɒswɜːʳd , US krɔːs- )
Word forms: crosswords
countable noun B2
A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.
There is a quick way to do the crossword.
Image of crossword
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Collocations:
newspaper crossword
One character puzzles over a newspaper crossword, and following the play's layered, disquietingly fractured narrative has a similarly vexed quality.
Times, Sunday Times
But with obvious lack of interest, she was doing a newspaper crossword.
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The image of the bowler-hatted businessman struggling to complete his newspaper crossword on the train may be a thing of the past.
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Brilliant but morose, they crack codes, one of them disconcertingly presenting itself in newspaper crosswords.
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It was a solitary time which she remembered as a lot of sitting in cafs, newspaper crosswords and scrawling in notebooks before any songs took shape.
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Translations:
Chinese: 填字游戏
Japanese: クロスワードパズル
- forget-me-not
- forgettable
- forgettable season
- forget the lesson
- forget the past
- forgivable
- forgive
- forgive a debt
- forgive a mistake
- forgiveness
- forgiveness of sins
- forgive the pun
- forgiving
- forgiving nature
- forgo
- forgo
- for God's sake
- for good
- for good measure
- for good measure
- for goodness sake
- for good or ill
- forgo sleep
- forgot
- forgotten