noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
puzzle
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And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there, you know.
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Using quantum theory to understand gravity makes as much sense as trying solve a crossword puzzle with the key to your door.
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It has taken 28 more years to add a crossword puzzle .
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She was highly educated and was good at crossword puzzles and so unlikely to make such an elementary error.
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All around the room, trainees put down their New York Times crossword puzzles .
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It's like a crossword puzzle .
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She left her book of crossword puzzles folded open on the kitchen counter.
■ VERB
do
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They use it with feeling and flair when they talk, tell jokes, invent word games, and do crossword puzzles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All around the room, trainees put down their New York Times crossword puzzles.
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Darby was a cheerfully relaxed young man who compiled cryptic crosswords for a monthly magazine in his spare time.
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I listen to a brief passage from one of the Brandenburg concertos and work on the Times crossword .
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It has taken 28 more years to add a crossword puzzle.
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It is the brian-child of Barbara Hall who can fairly claim to be the most versatile crossword compiler in the business.
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She left her book of crossword puzzles folded open on the kitchen counter.
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Up until now, Morse's only known passions were for opera, beer and crosswords.
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You can make up simple, large crossword puzzles for the patient to solve.