Double-Crostic

American  

[duhb-uhl-kraw-stik, -kros-tik] / ˈdʌb əlˈkrɔ stɪk, -ˈkrɒs tɪk /

Trademark.

1. a word game in which the player suits word definitions to numbered spaces to produce a quotation, the first letters of the definitions forming the name of the author and of the work from which the quote comes.

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Example Sentences

One reason for Fry's executive success was a phenomenal memory; he knew parliamentary procedure by heart and never found a Double-Crostic puzzle that he could not solve.

From Time Magazine Archive

He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids�in short, the perfect quiz contestant.

From Time Magazine Archive