Crossword
... of word puzzle in the world. Modern crosswords normally take the form of a square ... country of publication. Terminology The creating of crosswords is called 'cruciverbalism' among its practitioners, who ... Two of the common ones are barred crosswords which use bold lines between squares (instead ... radially or in concentric circles. Free form crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric ... top row and proceeding downward (some Japanese crosswords are numbered from top to bottom ...
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Talk:Crossword
... Daily Express have both "quick" and cryptic crosswords. I don't know off-hand about ... are bold. Then they're not really crosswords, imho, they're a slightly different form ... Tarquin Conventions There are other aspects of crosswords that ought to be discussed, probably. In particular, American style crosswords have some conventions, among them: 180-degree ... appearing in only one word). Almost all crosswords that appear in serious fora (e. ...
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Cryptic crossword
Cryptic crossword Cryptic crosswords are a particular type of crossword which ... the UK carry both cryptic and concise crosswords on a daily basis. Cryptic crosswords are uncommon in U.S. publications, though ... with The Listener. Other sources of cryptic crosswords (at all difficulty levels) are puzzle books ... Clues of this sort appeared in "straight" crosswords before cryptic crosswords existed. Here the ...
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Talk:Cryptic crossword
... s a lot to say about cryptic crosswords. For instance, the New York Times runs ... commented, specialist vocabulary is used in regular crosswords as well, and this therefore isn't ... Specialist vocabulary is not unique to cryptic crosswords - so-called "concise" or "quick" crosswords use it too. This section serves little ... number of cryptics than Games, and Dell Crosswords Crosswords, a bimonthly, publishes five per ...
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Araucaria (compiler)
... England priest. Beside's Araucaria's cryptic crosswords in the Guardian, he also sets quick crosswords for the Guardian, cryptic crosswords as Cinephile in the Financial Times and ... for other publications. He took to compiling crosswords full-time when his divorce lost him ... the newspaper industry. Two collections of his crosswords have been published under the titles ...
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Mitchell Symons
... Book Forfeit! The Equation book of sports crosswords The Equation book of movie crosswords The You Magazine Book Of Journolists (four ... books) Movielists The Sunday Magazine Book Of Crosswords The Hello! Magazine Book Of Crosswords (three books) How to be fat: The ...
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Fill-In (puzzle)
... are entered horizontally and vertically, as in crosswords, but the word list gives no indication ... loose crossword" format (as is common with crosswords used in classrooms or generated by computer ... single letter (typically a vowel). Like diagramless crosswords, these puzzles rely on the rotational symmetry ...
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National Puzzlers' League
... were the primary form of wordplay before crosswords came along, but look strange to modern ... puzzles in every issue are forms: like crosswords with regular geometric shapes and, usually, no ... extras: other non-flat puzzles, notably cryptic crosswords Flats consist of anagrams and puzzles in ...
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Talk:Heyawake
... remove what you had said over on crosswords... I couldn't find any examples of Japanese-language crosswords that followed the rule about black squares ...
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User talk:Dysprosia/Archive (22)
... general awesomeness and a great attitude. For crosswords above and beyond the call of duty ... left you a message at wikinews re crosswords, thanks Brian | (Talk) 02:13, 27 December ...
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