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xword puzzle

xword puzzle is the alternative form of crossword puzzle.

Meaning of crossword puzzle

Noun

crossword puzzle (plural crossword puzzles)

  1. A crossword.
    • Humans are not so different, she argues: “We have these incredibly huge brains but we use them to do crossword puzzles – that’s not something that is evolutionarily selected for.”2019 December 12, Chris Baraniuk, “Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates”, in BBC Future

Forms of xword puzzle

pluralxword puzzles

Questions about xword puzzle

What is xword puzzle the alternative form of?
Xword puzzle is the alternative form of crossword puzzle.

Words near xword puzzle in the dictionary

  1. xwalks
  2. Xwedodah
  3. xwind
  4. xwinds
  5. xword
  6. xword puzzle
  7. xword puzzles
  8. xwords
  9. XWT
  10. Xwémalhkwu
  11. XX male syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xword puzzle (page history and authors); crossword puzzle (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.

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