• n. 縱橫字謎；縱橫填字謎（等于cross puzzle）

來自cross和word的合成詞。

crossword (adj.)

January 1914, from cross (adj.) + word (n.). The first one ran in the "New York World" newspaper Dec. 21, 1913, but was called word-cross.

crossword (n.)

1925, short for crossword puzzle (q.v.).

1. Her mother sighed and rubbed out another mistake in the crossword puzzle.

她的母親嘆了口氣，擦去了縱橫填字游戲里另一個填錯的地方。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Don't chuck yesterday's paper out. I still haven't done the crossword.

別扔了昨天的報紙. 我還沒做字謎游戲呢.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. He shows a great interest in crossword puzzles.

他對填字游戲表現出很大興趣.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. It was like a crossword puzzle frozen into a house.

它象一個由縱橫字迷拚成的房子.

來自辭典例句

5. Will you help me with this crossword puzzle? It got me stumped.

你幫我解這個縱橫字謎好 嗎 ?它難住我了.

來自辭典例句