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

Read thus, The Second Stone offers some of the rarest pleasure of the year, combining the attractions of Scrabble, the double-crostic, literary name-spotting and one-upmanship with the humbler delights of the whodunit.

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Indeed, the score packed so many syllables and notes into each bar that it gave the sensation of a double-crostic for the ear.

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Unhappily the solution to this Double-Crostic of a novel does not spell out, as with Shakespeare, "Magic is the Lord of All these Revels," but a lesser truth: Pamela Hansford Johnson is a Very Clever Woman.

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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.

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