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crossword

Puzzle in which a grid of open and blacked-out squares must be filled with interlocking words, to be read horizontally and vertically, according to numbered clues. The first crossword was devised by Arthur Wynne of Liverpool, England, and appeared in the New York World in 1913.



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The crossword puzzle that formerly ran in the Antelope Valley wrapper now appears in the Classified section.
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