xword

English

Noun

xword (plural xwords)

1. Alternative form of x-word (“crossword”)
   • 2021, Hayley Gold, Letters to Margaret, page 15:

     You took the newsy xwords of yore and transformed them into the themed puzzles modern solvers have come to love.

   • 2015, Gordon Lowe, The acid bath murders: the trials and liquidations of John George Haigh, page 159:

     In the first instance I think that it was a good thing that I had that Xword to do or I should have been very bored with the first day's proceedings, having heard that evidence so often before.