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2. Crossword - Wikipedia

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   An American-style crossword grid layout. 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") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...

3. The New York Times crossword - Wikipedia

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   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 and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games. [1][2][3][4][5] The puzzle is created by various freelance constructors and has ...

4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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   Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

5. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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   The first is the repetition of BOARD in each theme answer. Usually constructors work hard to avoid these kinds of dupes in a grid. In this puzzle, however, the duplication is part of the theme ...

6. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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   Sally Hoelscher, USA TODAY. September 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM. There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! Open Wide. Constructor: Jess Shulman. Editor ...

7. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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   Sally Hoelscher, USA TODAY. September 20, 2024 at 1:00 AM. There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! Letterboxd Films. Constructor: Kiran Pandey ...

8. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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   On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...

9. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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   He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, with the letters F-U ...