Theme (and genre) of this puzzle

Usage examples of crosswords.

Within the outer bar was an inner bar, an antiworld where many men and few women sat in arcs staring at hands of cards or kwik crosswords or architect's drawings or lawyers' briefs or escape routes, where bankruptcies and bereavements were entrained by a twingeing shake or nod of some great ruined head, and where, at this moment, behind a mephitic banquette of cigarette smoke, his back turned, Steve Cousins sat talking the higher shop with three bronzed pocked mug shots: the most exalted vil-lainspeak (no detail, just first principles) about getting back what you put in and this being life and this being it .

He can feel it pressing against the walls, pressing, pressing, and only by focusing on crosswords, only by bringing order to the empty boxes by filling them with the absolutely right letters can he keep the outer disorder from invading his space.

A duck splashed somewhere on the lake and its cry made him think of Cambridge - of his warm bed and his crosswords - and he had to shake his head to clear the memory.

And I doubt it's on your work, because crosswords are in as much of a demand as ever, and because just last week you told me that yqour contract's been renewed.

Out of sheer desperation , she d begun to create crosswords, then had found that she did it welf, that she loved it and that there was a ready market for what she composed.

How many Sundays did we spend doing the cryptograms and crosswords in the newspaper?

And Richard had hurled together a ragged quilt of house ads, overmatter, crosswords and killed chess columns.