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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.).
