What is "crossword"

Usage examples of "crossword".

He had a habit of filing away odd bits of information in his encyclopaedic brain and, when he had time, marshalling them together like the pieces of a crossword puzzle.

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

They discussed the article on polymer extrusions from alien silicates, he studied the c-v drive specs yet another time, relaxed over a coffee while the two worked a crossword puzzle in Deltan symbology, and then he bade her a fond goodnight and went to bed again.

In a few months she would run across his slippers or a completed crossword puzzle and she would cry and cry and cry.

The crossword from which took the most pleasure, though, was the one that cled the life and times of Leah and Garrick.

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 had been walking pretty fast since he left the jail but he was trotting now, catacorner across the lawn, onto the gallery and across it into the hall past the library where his father would still be sitting under one reading lamp with the Memphis paper’s Sunday crossword puzzle page and his mother under the other one with the new Book-of-the-Month book, and on back to what his mother used to try to call Gavin’s study but which Paralee and Aleck Sander had long since re­named the office so that everyone now called it that.

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.

Hudson, who heard it from someone who heard it on the post, "You know how Euel always did them damfool crossword puzzles.

By that time he had dissected every dissectible insect in the region, he spoke Spanish like a native, and he had solved all of the crossword puzzles in the maga­zines that he received in the mail.