How to Use crossword in a Sentence

crossword

noun
  • And woe be to me if I so much as breath on the crossword.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
  • No clues, no crosswords, no thinking.
    — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Collapse on bed with crossword.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The daily crossword is spread on my lap, my husband sits by my side.
    — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a word found in one of the clues.
    — WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Some of you may not have noticed this, but in most cases, a crossword grid tends to be square.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Fill it with cool water on a hot day and finish the Times crossword.
    — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Race your family to be the first one to build a crossword using all your tiles.
    — Abigail Bailey, Good Housekeeping, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The wife does the crossword and the husband does the Jumble.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The answer to this week’s crossword contest is a four-letter part of the body.
    — WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a six-letter word.
    — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a five-letter word.
    — WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a music venue.
    — WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is an eight-letter noun.
    — WSJ, 7 July 2023
  • And, just like solvers, crossword-puzzle creators have their own pet peeves and favorite moves.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
  • My father had also loved to swim naked, and to sit by the pond, bare-assed, doing the crossword.
    — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The New York Times crossword gets harder as the week goes on.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • One way to find out is to break away from popular games like crosswords and Sudoku.
    — Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The steps fit nicely between bouts with a tough crossword puzzle or getting the place ready for guests.
    — Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The first group played computer games, while the second group took part in crossword puzzles.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Nov. 2022
  • In this crossword puzzle, some answers are one letter too long and will spill over into the gray squares.
    — Patrick Berry, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • For the new crossword project, though, Ben had introduced a third party.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Please see a note to readers about crossword puzzles on page C13.
    — WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Imbibers can put their bar knowledge to the test with crossword puzzles, a labyrinth, word search and fill-in-the-blanks.
    — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The couple often spend their evenings playing board games and doing crosswords.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The couple often spend their evenings playing board games and doing crosswords.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Play Game Don’t miss our crosswords, quizzes, and other brainteasers.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • My son finds me at the edge of the pool with a second drink, working through the Sunday crossword on my phone.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The cards look like crossword puzzles, with numbers from 00 through 99.
    — Jamie Lisanti, SI.com, 2 May 2018
  • Irvine now challenges herself with small print, crosswords, and product labels.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025

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