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noun • a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across • verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message | ||||||||
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noun • a square matrix of n rows and columns; cells contain n different symbols so arranged that no symbol occurs more than once in any row or column | ||||||||
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ACROSTICS which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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ACROSTICS
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