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crossword

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for crossword.

Editorial note

As a crossword enthusiast, I would be very interested in the implementation of an AI-backed crossword puzzle solver!

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Quick take

(informal, by extension) The grid of such a puzzle.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(informal, by extension) The grid of such a puzzle.

noun

(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crossword.

noun

(informal, by extension) The grid of such a puzzle.

noun

(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.

Example sentences

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As a crossword enthusiast, I would be very interested in the implementation of an AI-backed crossword puzzle solver!

2

The Economist is weekly, and sounds like what he's suggesting, sans comics and crossword puzzle.

3

The use of ANN was completely unnecessary, as there are only 3 characters in the crossword puzzle.

4

My grandfather constructed crossword puzzles for several magazines and newspapers, from 1955 until his death this year, 90 years old.

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Perhaps you're looking for the triple word scrore in today's crossword puzzle as well?

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Another thing I'd recommend is replacing your recreational gaming like crossword puzzles, sudoku, etc with Project Euler.

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There have always been some; even crossword puzzles are arguably the pre-computer version.

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For example, even doing a simple crossword puzzle to distract yourself may boost your creativity vs concentrating solely on trying to do something 'creative'.

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Next they'll be putting crossword puzzles in the New York Times!

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These problems may have ranged from extracting a new dataset from an unexpected source, to building cohorts for customer retention analysis, or the NY Times saturday crossword.

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So was my school newspaper with a sudoku puzzle and a crossword that I would do instead of listening to a boring lecture in college.

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I'd rather see an attempt to broaden the subscription base by aggressively lowering the cost ($7.99) and aggressively expanding the entitlement (sub includes crossword, for example).

Quote examples

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I did not find the "Comprehensive Example" chapter implementing a crossword puzzle mode as particularly helpful.

2

I'm pretty sure "A Regular Crossword" was the first one to come to the public's attention.

3

Only place I've ever seen the word "hamartia" (before I Googled it) was in a clue from a very, very hard crossword puzzle.

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It's quite common for people to independently come up with the same crappy passwords - the adobe "crossword puzzle" leak was a particularly interesting example of that.

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How do you use crossword in a sentence?

As a crossword enthusiast, I would be very interested in the implementation of an AI-backed crossword puzzle solver!

What does crossword mean?

(informal, by extension) The grid of such a puzzle.

What part of speech is crossword?

crossword is commonly used as noun.