two-speed crossword
two-speed crossword noun: a crossword puzzle allowing the solver to choose from two sets of clues: simple or cryptic.
Noun
two-speed crossword (plural two-speed crosswords)
- A crossword puzzle allowing the solver to choose from two sets of clues: simple or cryptic.
- I had been doing the cryptic version of the Star's two-speed crossword since my days as a junior proofreader in the Department of Posts and Telecommunications.2006, Ivan Vladislavić, The Restless Supermarket, page 46
- A quantitative analysis performed on 20 puzzles (523 clue-answer pairs) from The Times (cryptic puzzles; Browne 2009), The Guardian (non-cryptic puzzles; Rusbridger 11.–16.05.2013) and The Sun (two-speed crosswords giving a non-cryptic and a cryptic clue for each answer; N.N. 2009) confirms the...2016, Christoph Schubert, Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English, page 116
Forms of two-speed crossword
| plural | two-speed crosswords |
|---|
Questions about two-speed crossword
- What does two-speed crossword mean?
- Two-speed crossword means a crossword puzzle allowing the solver to choose from two sets of clues: simple or cryptic.
- What part of speech is two-speed crossword?
- Two-speed crossword is a noun.
- What is the plural of two-speed crossword?
- The plural of two-speed crossword is two-speed crosswords.
Words near two-speed crossword in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: two-speed crossword (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “two-speed crossword.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/two-speed_crossword. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.