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  2. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [32] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...

  3. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. 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 they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  4. List of puzzle topics - Wikipedia

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    Crossword puzzle; Cryptic crossword; Cryptogram; Maze. Back from the klondike; Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Mechanical puzzle. Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Burr puzzle; Word puzzle. Acrostic; Daughter in the box; Disentanglement puzzle; Edge-matching puzzle; Egg of Columbus; Eight queens puzzle; Einstein's Puzzle; Eternity puzzle; Fifteen puzzle; Fox ...

  5. Crossword - AOL

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    Crossword. Solve puzzle clues across and down to fill the numbered rows and columns of the grid with words and phrases. By Masque Publishing. Advertisement. Advertisement. all. board. card. casino.

  6. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...

  7. Do crosswords work? - AOL

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    Crossword puzzles that are too easy won’t help — you have to push yourself to the next level to change your brain. And although fluency is an important brain function, it’s just one of many.