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    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")...
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    The New York Times Crossword (marketed as The Crossword) is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times as part of The New...
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    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...
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    Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is an Indian chain of bookstores in Mumbai. As of today, Crossword has stores in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi...
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  • crossword, cruciverbalism, or cruciverbalist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A crossword is a word puzzle. Crossword may also refer to: Crossword...
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    Originated with the crossword in 1942, NYT Games was officially established on August 21, 2014, with the addition of the Mini Crossword. Most puzzles of...
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  • Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations...
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  • 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...
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  • Crosswords is the second extended play album by American recording artist Panda Bear. It was released on August 20, 2015 by the Domino Recording Company...
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  • like spelling. Researchers have found that adults who regularly solved crossword puzzles, which require familiarity with a larger vocabulary, had better...
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  • 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...
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  • his blog, Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle, about the New York Times crossword puzzle. Outside of crosswords, Sharp teaches English at Binghamton...
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  • The Crossword Book Award (formerly known as the Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), the Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), the Vodafone Crossword Book...
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    Will Shortz (category Crossword creators)
    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...
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  • answers to the Varsity cryptic crossword, Pemberton as Professor Nigel Squires, who pseudonymously sets the crossword using the name Sphinx, and Shearsmith...
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  • 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...
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    Dan Feyer is an American crossword puzzle solver and editor. He holds the record for the most American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) championships...
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  • 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...
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    Wyna Liu (category Crossword creators)
    first published crossword puzzle appeared in the American Values Club Crossword in January 2019. Her first New York Times crossword was published in...
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  • 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...
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  • Leonard Dawe (redirect from D-Day crossword)
    national amateur football team in 1912. He later became a schoolteacher and crossword compiler for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and in 1944 was interrogated...
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  • beaner in the New York Times crossword, clued as "Pitch to the head, informally", generated controversy. New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz claimed...
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    : 20  In the United States, it was distributed by Parker Brothers as Crossword Lexicon.: 1  In 1938, George Parker stated that of all games sold by the...
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  • Coffeetime Crosswords is a crossword puzzle game developed by Japanese studio Voltex, Inc. for Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360 released on July 16, 2008...
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    April. Churchill cynically referred to the negotiations as Operation Crossword, apparently because he found them puzzling. In spite of warnings from...
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  • Crossword Quiz was a Canadian game show which aired on CBC Television December 26, 1952 to June 30, 1953. Gameshow moderator Kim McIlroy provided crossword...
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  • translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. Powys Mathers was born in Forest Hill, London, the son of Edward Peter...
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    Galbraith Graham MBE (16 February 1921 – 26 November 2013) was a British crossword compiler, best known as Araucaria of The Guardian. He was also, like his...
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    Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (category Crossword creators)
    Puzzler", a monthly cryptic crossword in The Atlantic magazine, from September 1977 to October 2009, and wrote cryptic crosswords every four weeks for The...
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    Morales' first name is frequently used in crossword puzzles, because its rare construction makes it a prize for crossword constructors (it is a four-letter word...
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