A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries")...

A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where...

crossword, cruciverbalism, or cruciverbalist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A crossword is a word puzzle. Crossword may also refer to: Crossword...

Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is an Indian chain of bookstores headquartered in Mumbai. As of today, Crossword has stores in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bengaluru,...

The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers...

The Crossword Book Award (formerly known as the Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), the Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), the Vodafone Crossword Book...

Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations...

the newspaper's crossword puzzle in 1942, NYT Games was officially established on August 21, 2014, with the addition of the Mini Crossword. Most puzzles...

Crossword Puzzle is the seventh and penultimate studio album by The Partridge Family. Released in June 1973, it was the last Partridge Family album to...

In 1944, codenames related to the D-Day plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, which the British Secret...

The Paser Crossword Stela is an ancient Egyptian limestone stela that dates from the 20th Dynasty. It was constructed by Paser, c. 1150 BC, during the...

writing skills. Researchers have found that adults who regularly solved crossword puzzles, which require familiarity with a larger vocabulary, had better...

known for writing about the New York Times crossword puzzle on his blog, Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle. Sharp teaches English at Binghamton...

January 1948 – 24 June 2023) was a British crossword compiler. She created hundreds of cryptic crosswords between 2006 and 2023 mostly for The Guardian...

Crosswords DS (stylized as CrossworDS and known as Nintendo Presents: Crossword Collection in PAL regions) is a puzzle video game developed by American...

The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) is a crossword-solving tournament held annually in February, March, or April. Founded in 1978 by Will...

answers to the Varsity cryptic crossword, Pemberton as Professor Nigel Squires, who pseudonymously sets the crossword using the name Sphinx, and Shearsmith...

fad, claiming the trademark for the name Picross (short for "picture crossword") for their own use, and released two nonogram titles for the Game Boy...

August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword editor for The New York Times. He graduated from Indiana University with...

Contestants competed in a series of rounds to fill in words within a crossword puzzle for cash. Muriel Green of Exposure Unlimited developed the idea...

Crossword Plus is a Nintendo 3DS video game that was released on October 1, 2012 in North America. It is the sequel to the 2008 game Crosswords DS. Players...

account logins to track stats. Wordle was later added to the New York Times Crossword app and accompanied by WordleBot, which gave players analysis on their...

Scribbage (also marketed as Ad-Lib Crossword Clues) is a classic dice word game published in 1959 by the E.S. Lowe Company. Thirteen dice are rolled which...

Dan Feyer is an American crossword puzzle solver and editor. He holds the record for the most American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) championships...

been the editor of the Newsday Sunday crossword puzzle since 1988 and the editor of the Newsday daily crossword puzzle since 1992. He is also a trivia...

John Halpern (born Cuckfield, Sussex, 21 June 1967) is a cryptic crossword compiler for newspapers including The Guardian (as Paul), The Independent (as...

heart infection. She quit smoking in 2023. A fan of crossword puzzles, Lyonne designed a crossword for The New York Times in 2019. During the 2023 WGA...

solving word puzzles such as crosswords, or for playing games such as Scrabble. The first such anagram dictionary was The Crossword Anagram Dictionary by R...

Sarah Hayes, usually known as Arachne, is a British cryptic crossword setter. She sets puzzles for The Guardian, The Independent (as Anarche), the Financial...

beaner in the New York Times crossword, clued as "Pitch to the head, informally", generated controversy. New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz claimed...