Look at the number of letters. Solve the damn thing. A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The game's goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues , which lead to the answers. Site Search. Sign in or create an account. Most cryptic crosswords will include numbers in brackets at the end of each clue , but what do they mean?
They are there to let you know how many letters are in the answer. Sometimes two or more numbers may be included. This means the answer will contain two or more words. Click No to suggest a clue.
By convention no firm rule on this , clues in square brackets indicate a non-verbal action or a utterance.
The Wikipedia uses as an example clue of [It's cold! Crossword clues for inits Quick signature: Abbr. Monogram pts. If a clue is enclosed in quotation marks , it means the clue should be interpreted as something uttered rather than as a meaning. When an answer needs a modifier to match the clue strictly, the modifier is usually included in parentheses at the end of the clue , or after the word "with". The puzzle becomes increasingly difficult throughout the week, with the easiest puzzle on Monday and the most difficult puzzle on Saturday.
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A Solver who plays an honest game does not ask others for Answers or consult the Solution until he decides to end play. Constructors, editors, and players have developed and introduced variations to the basic game over the years, for the most part to make the game more interesting. Chances are that you will encounter some of them when you play. Variations may occur in shape e. By far, the most common grid in the U. The basic game is usually played on this kind of grid. There is no need for the beginning solver who plays on the standard grid to be concerned with variations.
In crosswords, a theme is a subject that several not all clues and answers in a given puzzle share in common. If a puzzle has a theme, each clue and answer that belong to the theme express some aspect of the theme's subject. Usually you can tell that a puzzle has a theme by looking for it in the puzzle's title or in a succinct sentence under the title at the top of the page, but don't expect the constructor to hand the theme to you on a silver platter.
Often, the theme, if any, will be masked — hidden in the title — in the form of a pun or other kind of wordplay; it probably will not be recognizable as an outright statement of a theme. Some puzzles indicate that a clue is part of the theme by placing a question mark or asterisk after the clue; others show no mercy. A stepquote is a crossword puzzle in which the Answer is a quotation that makes its way through the diagram in a stair-step fashion.
The Answer begins in the upper left corner and ends in the lower right corner. If a puzzle is a stepquote puzzle it contains a special quotation. The solver's challenge is to discover this quotation. The stepquote may contain the author's name and the title of the source of the quotation. Or these Answers may be contained at other locations in the puzzle. Circle-in-the-square is a type of crossword puzzle in which circles appear in some of the Answer squares. The letters that will appear in the circles when the Answers are written in spell out words related to the puzzle's theme.
Each square in the grid that contains a letter from the quotation contains an inscribed circle; hence the name c ircles-in-the-square. As with stepquotes, the solver's goal is to discover the quotation. Usually, the puzzle also contains an answer that reveals the author's name and a second answer that reveals the title of the source of the quotation.
The editor may add a comment to tip you off that c ircles-in-the-square is involved, or he may only hint at the matter.
A multiple letters per square puzzle is a type of theme puzzle that calls for the Solver to place two, three, or more letters in one of the white squares in each theme Answer. For example, a puzzle whose theme is the Sun might expect a Solver to place the letters S-U-N in one square of each answer that is related to the sun. As usual, don't expect the Editor to tip you off to the fact that multiple letters are involved: that fact and the key to which letters are involved probably will be buried in the theme or disguised in an Editor's comment.
A type of theme puzzle which calls for the solver to place an image or icon in one of the white squares of each theme Answer instead of a single letter.
For example, a puzzle whose theme is Celestial Objects might expect a Solver to place the picture of the sun in one of the squares that belong to an Answer about the sun, the picture of the moon in one of the squares that belong to an Answer about the moon, etc.
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