(1) There's something anodyne about even his best work; it has the cerebral coldness of a crossword or mathematical puzzle.

(2) He ran the words through his mind, almost like a crossword clue.

(3) I chose to ignore him and concentrate on a crossword clue, which I really couldn't get.

(4) She settled down to do the crossword

(5) He would even interrupt classes to ask teachers to solve the crossword clues that he could not solve.

(6) They dig for juicy details as adroitly as they do the crossword and jigsaw puzzles that they plug away at.

(7) It was the only word I needed to complete the crossword .

(8) Jack scribed the word beings into the appropriate boxes on the crossword .

(9) It's not even a good pun, which, like a good crossword clue, should work on both the superficial and the cryptic levels.

(10) He left his cryptic crossword on the desk, with two clues still unanswered.

(11) I couldn't answer one of the clues in my crossword .

(12) In 1924, Simon and Schuster took a chance on publishing a book devoted to crosswords , and the crossword craze started.

(13) Learning is re-enforced and encouraged through the use of crosswords , word searches, memory skills, word wheels, numeracy and other activities.

(14) Watching this is like doing a crossword puzzle written by a dyslexic lunatic.

(15) Work your mind with brain-teasers, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords or quiz books.

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(17) The other magazine in the seat pocket on the airplane had a crossword puzzle with about 100 clues.

(18) Similarly, I could get into crosswords but not jigsaws.

(19) The games include crosswords , hangman and cryptogram.

(20) The events, such as word games and crosswords will be organised by resource persons throughout the day.