crossword puzzle
English
Alternative forms
- xword puzzle (abbreviation)
Noun
crossword puzzle (plural crossword puzzles)
- (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