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  • noun Plural form of crossword.

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  • In the entertaining 2006 documentary Wordplay, which depicts the drama of a previous American Crossword Puzzle tourney, Ken Burns waxes a bit too rhapsodic when he calls crosswords an "iconic manifestation of civilization."

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • In the entertaining 2006 documentary Wordplay, which depicts the drama of a previous American Crossword Puzzle tourney, Ken Burns waxes a bit too rhapsodic when he calls crosswords an "iconic manifestation of civilization."

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • In the entertaining 2006 documentary Wordplay, which depicts the drama of a previous American Crossword Puzzle tourney, Ken Burns waxes a bit too rhapsodic when he calls crosswords an "iconic manifestation of civilization."

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • In the entertaining 2006 documentary Wordplay, which depicts the drama of a previous American Crossword Puzzle tourney, Ken Burns waxes a bit too rhapsodic when he calls crosswords an "iconic manifestation of civilization."

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • In the entertaining 2006 documentary Wordplay, which depicts the drama of a previous American Crossword Puzzle tourney, Ken Burns waxes a bit too rhapsodic when he calls crosswords an "iconic manifestation of civilization."

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • In the entertaining 2006 documentary Wordplay, which depicts the drama of a previous American Crossword Puzzle tourney, Ken Burns waxes a bit too rhapsodic when he calls crosswords an "iconic manifestation of civilization."

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • Do the ‘ch’ ‘ll’ or ‘aa’ occupy a single box, or are they spread over two boxes as they would be in English crosswords?

    Crossword puzzle | Linguism 2009

  • We also expect to add features such as crosswords, 'news in video', a 'latest news' update, and 'email to a friend' in the upcoming weeks/months, as they become available.

    GlobeReader makes a quiet debut 2009

  • We also expect to add features such as crosswords, 'news in video', a 'latest news' update, and 'email to a friend' in the upcoming weeks/months, as they become available.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Well, the king of all crosswords is "The New York Times" puzzle and the man who comes up with the clues and a star of this new movie is puzzle master, the kind of crosswords, Will Shortz joins us now live.

    CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2006 2006

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