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  2. Printer's Devilry - Wikipedia

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    A barred grid, the kind used by Ximenes and Azed in their puzzles. A Printer's Devilry is a form of cryptic crossword puzzle, first invented by Afrit (Alistair Ferguson Ritchie) in 1937. A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers. [1]

  3. Devil Dog - Wikipedia

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    Devil Dog is a nickname for a United States Marine coined during World War I. [1] [2] History. The Bulldog fountain in Belleau. Multiple publications of the United ...

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 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 ...

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

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    Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our crossword blog.

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

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    The clue's wording is a nod to the backwards speech pattern used by YODA. Here's a fun fact: Stuart Freeborn, who helped create the original YODA puppet, based the character's face on his own ...

  7. 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.

  8. Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    Letters 16 and 17 form a two-letter word ending in P. Since this has to be UP, letter 16 is a U, which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three-letter word starting with A could be and, any, all, or even a proper name like Ann. One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be.

  9. Devil Dog (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Devil Dogs, a 1928 film; Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, a 1978 horror film; Devil Dog Dawson, a 1921 American western film; Devil Dogs, a rock band; Drake's Devil Dogs, a snack food; Hellbender, another name for a species of salamander; Another word for Hellhound "Devil Dogs", a song by Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton from the album The Great ...