Grids forming shapes other than squares are also occasionally used.
Puzzles are often one of several standard sizes.
For example, many weekday newspaper puzzles (such as the American New York Times crossword puzzle) are 15\xd715 squares, while weekend puzzles may be 21\xd721, 23\xd723, or 25\xd725..
If you're writing a crossword to be solved by more than one person, your clues need to be general enough to be understood by everyone who's going to try and solve them.
It's common sense: a clue is no good if no-one understands it.
If people don't understand the clue, they're not going to get the answer.
It is easy to see that a common 15\xd715 CWP must have fewer than 120 answers.
Indeed, there can be no more than four 3-letter answers in each of its 15 rows, and in each of its 15 columns.
So, there must be fewer than 120 answers in total..
The first crossword was published on the 'Fun' page of The New York World on 21 December 1913.
It was invented by British journalist Arthur Wynne, who emigrated to the United States in the 1890's..
Do a quick first run.
Challenging puzzles can seem impenetrable, but you can usually get at least one answer off the bat.
Start your puzzle by doing a quick run through of the across clues and fill in any “gimmies.” Those are the easy answers that you can find quickly off the top of your head..
The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares..
Memory and thinking skills may improve with regular crossword practice.
A study published in NEJM Evidence found that people with mild memory problems who did web-based crossword puzzles showed improvement in cognition and experienced less brain shrinkage, compared to those who played web-based cognitive games..
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It was invented by British journalist Arthur Wynne, who emigrated to the United States in the 1890's.
His first crossword, or 'Word-Cross' as he called it, did not look like the present ones – it was diamond shaped with no black squares.
During the early 1920s other newspapers picked up on the pastime..
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The Daily Telegraph
Known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph
Is a conservative national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.It was founded by Arthur B.Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph & Courier.Considered a newspaper of record
The Telegraph has been described as being one of the world's great titles.The paper's motto
Was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858.
