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By Alec Sander, in The Enigma
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The great public following goes to the Cross Word Puzzle, which is an expanded word form in which, commonly, only dictionary words are allowed. It is this simplicity of words, together with its larger and more elaborate construction, that makes it irresistible to the casual puzzler. A cross word square, or other geometric figure, is a logical modern development of the ancient word square. The insertion of black spaces permits it to be made of any size and gives an interesting variety of inner construction.
The cross word puzzle began its career only a few decades back. It was run for many years in the Sunday Magazine of the New York World and has held a considerable and steady group of followers. Recently it has come into a sudden great vogue and is being printed by many newspapers and magazines throughout the country. Cross word puzzles are now published for the first time in book form.
Prosper Buranelli [[23]]
DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS
Don’t get scared if you can’t guess the first horizontal word. Go through the list till you find a definition that you’re sure of. That is the simplest method of beginning the solution. When you have written in all the words you are sure of you will have plenty of clues for the unknowns.
Don’t spend too much time with the long words unless you are sure of them. They will appear when the short ones have been solved. Of course, not all the short ones are easy, but they are generally more readily attended to than the long ones. Also, there are more of them, increasing the chances of finding familiar faces among the definitions.