I am unable to answer the cross word question as you would need to be furnished with more information to do so and we unfortunately don't have the full cross word.
Cross words themselves are an excellent way to exercise the brain and involve a lot of lateral thinking and so are excellent for vocabulary and dexterity also.
The first crosswords appeared in 1890 in an Italian paper. Crosswords are puzzles that take the form of black and white squares, where the aim is to fill in the words and phrases through the solving of clues that are numbered an placed below the crossword itself.
There are a number of different styles of cross word grids, including an American, British and a Japanese style of crossword.
Cryptic clues are also another form of cross word question style. These clues are definitions or puzzles that have to be solved and then the answer is placed in the quiz in the normal way. These cryptic clues are a qui within a quiz and so are a little more challenging than most normal crosswords.
Cross words themselves are an excellent way to exercise the brain and involve a lot of lateral thinking and so are excellent for vocabulary and dexterity also.
The first crosswords appeared in 1890 in an Italian paper. Crosswords are puzzles that take the form of black and white squares, where the aim is to fill in the words and phrases through the solving of clues that are numbered an placed below the crossword itself.
There are a number of different styles of cross word grids, including an American, British and a Japanese style of crossword.
Cryptic clues are also another form of cross word question style. These clues are definitions or puzzles that have to be solved and then the answer is placed in the quiz in the normal way. These cryptic clues are a qui within a quiz and so are a little more challenging than most normal crosswords.
There are also a number of other kinds of crosswords, including quick cross words that are straight questions and answers formats as well as crosswords that rely on certain themes. There are also double clue list crosswords that offer people two sets of clues and two crosswords on the one piece of puzzle.
Crosswords are thoroughly popular and appear in a large number of magazines and papers, hence this status.