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Aric Egmont and Jennie Bass, a young couple in Boston, shared a love of crossword puzzles, and were accustomed to doing the Sunday crossword puzzle together. Intending to propose, and hoping for a great surprise, Aric approached Doug Most, the editor of the Globe Magazine, and through him, Cox and Rathvon, soliciting a special crossword. Cox ...
Often, a straight clue is not in itself sufficient to distinguish between several possible answers, either because multiple synonymous answers may fit or because the clue itself is a homonym (e.g., "Lead" as in to be ahead in a contest or "Lead" as in the element), so the solver must make use of checks to establish the correct answer with ...
The iTunes description for Crickler 2 states that this take on the crossword puzzle genre is an "adaptive" experience, that automatically adjusts itself to your own skill level and knowledge.
The number of words in the answer is not given in the clue—so a one-word clue can have a multiple-word answer. [28] The theme, if any, will be applied consistently throughout the puzzle; e.g., if one of the theme entries is a particular variety of pun, all the theme entries will be of that type. [9] Theme answers will tend to be the longest ...
To answer a clue, highlight the grid space by clicking on the clue in the list. You can also select any square in the crossword grid and click the square again to swap between highlighting Across and Down clues. Type in the missing letters to fill in the answer. You can check any letter, answer, or the full grid at any time with the Check button.
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.
Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times and NPR’s “puzzlemaster” for more than three decades, suffered a stroke last month and has spent the last several ...
Merl Harry Reagle (January 5, 1950 – August 22, 2015) was an American crossword constructor. [2] [3] For 30 years, he constructed a puzzle every Sunday for the San Francisco Chronicle (originally the San Francisco Examiner), which he syndicated to more than 50 Sunday newspapers, [4] including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Seattle Times, The Plain ...