crossword puzzle

Like finishing a crossword puzzle when your plane is crashing.

For passengers, beyond the statistics lies a puzzle that has persisted for years.

She struggled to concentrate on crossword puzzles and read books, so she just watched television.

Working on his own piece of the intelligence puzzle, Stasio racked up impressive victories.

When he looks at the neatly compiled jigsaw puzzle of his life, however, he feels empty, deeply dissatisfied.

But their action just proved another confounding piece of this negligent puzzle.

He was an Englishman and came to the valley by chance and settled here, and to his dying day he was a puzzle to the people.

The chief puzzle of the problem is that nothing turns out as we were told it would turn out.

Something seemed to puzzle him, for he was frowning, but by and by the old cynical smile came back.

It did not puzzle the Colonel at all to know where the sperrit came from, and he did not like the child the less because of it.

I can read a chapter to father in the Bible, but the hard names sadly puzzle me.