crossword puzzle
Answers cross at shared letters. This topic is part of Word Puzzles within Games. This page currently draws on 4 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
crossword puzzle trivia questions
A crossword puzzle is filled with what?
Answer: Words
Bonus fact: Answers cross at shared letters.
What are the two standard directions for crossword answers?
Answer: Across and down
Bonus fact: Clues are grouped by across and down entries.
The first modern crossword puzzle is commonly credited to whom?
Answer: Arthur Wynne
Bonus fact: Wynne's word-cross appeared in the New York World in 1913.
A crossword puzzle is solved by filling words into what?
Answer: Grid
Bonus fact: Answers cross one another in a grid.