crossword puzzle

English

Alternative forms

• xword puzzle (abbreviation)

Noun

crossword puzzle (plural crossword puzzles)

1. (games) A crossword.
   • 2019 December 12, Chris Baraniuk, “Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates”, in BBC Future‎^[1]:

     Humans are not so different, she argues: “We have these incredibly huge brains but we use them to do crossword puzzles – that’s not something that is evolutionarily selected for.”

Translations

crossword — see crossword