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| - crossword puzzle (game) 1. a big, fat waste of time whereby fancy-pants intellectuals try to show off how smart they are, OR 2. a delightful, amusing, and wonderful activity in which heroes demonstrate how smart they are especially its top line Image:WWTS1sted1.png "Crossword Puzzle"is a part of Wikiality.com's dictionary, "Watch What You Say". For the full dictionary, click .
- Describe "A game of using clues to fill in words and phrases into overlapping horizontal and vertical lines on a grid -- 9 and 6 letters" here. As a hobby in fiction, crossword puzzle solving shows that the character is intelligent and good with words--or wants people around him to think he is. Some common motifs are: The trope carries rather different cultural baggage depending on which side of The Pond you live on. Also see Smart People Play Chess, Genius Book Club, and Pastimes Prove Personality. Examples of Crossword Puzzle include:
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| - crossword puzzle (game) 1. a big, fat waste of time whereby fancy-pants intellectuals try to show off how smart they are, OR 2. a delightful, amusing, and wonderful activity in which heroes demonstrate how smart they are especially its top line Image:WWTS1sted1.png "Crossword Puzzle"is a part of Wikiality.com's dictionary, "Watch What You Say". For the full dictionary, click .
- Describe "A game of using clues to fill in words and phrases into overlapping horizontal and vertical lines on a grid -- 9 and 6 letters" here. As a hobby in fiction, crossword puzzle solving shows that the character is intelligent and good with words--or wants people around him to think he is. Some common motifs are: 1.
* The know-it-all who does his puzzle in ink. 2.
* The character fills in a set of wrong words that have to do with the plotline; usually this is to show that they're distracted. 3.
* The person who constantly asks the other person in the room, "What's a 11-letter word that means 'mercenary captain?'" Generally seen as someone who wants to be thought of as smart, but isn't quite making it. If they're asking, "What's a three-letter word that means 'feline?'", the character is meant to be not too bright at all. 4.
* "Cheating" by looking in the next day's newspaper or the back of the magazine--absolute rotter. 5.
* If the character does Sudoku instead, it connotes that the character is trendy and up on popular culture. Whether that's a good thing depends on context. The trope carries rather different cultural baggage depending on which side of The Pond you live on.
* American crosswords are typically interlocking grids, with a theme for the lengthier answers, while the rest of the puzzle features vocabulary tests. An American doing a crossword is likely to be portrayed as being of slightly-above-average intelligence, especially if it's the New York Times crossword. (The crosswords featured in Harper's are Nintendo Hard, mostly because the clues are VERY obscurely worded and require a buttload of abstract thinking to decode.)
* British crosswords resemble snaking mazes with clues that require a working knowledge of mythology and literature, with cryptic clues layered with double meanings (non-cryptic crosswords are known as "quickie" crosswords). A character seen completing The Times or The Guardian crossword (or, in extreme cases, The Listener) will be very smart. In contrast, a character shown doing crosswords in The Sun will be ridiculed. Also see Smart People Play Chess, Genius Book Club, and Pastimes Prove Personality. Examples of Crossword Puzzle include:
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