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| - A blackboard and chalk!
- Crossword was an unsold series that may be the first attempt at a game show based around crossword puzzles.
- The solution to each "clue" is an anagram of the actual word. In order to solve the word, one must first decipher the anagram to figure out the correct word.
- "Crossword" was a regular feature of the Star Wars Insider for several issues. Crossword puzzles appear in issues 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, and 73.
- In 1912, Arthur Wynne was distressed at rumors abroad that Europe was gearing up for that awful blemish on Christian history, World War I. Rumors were rampant that the war was turning people into disillusioned modern socialists. "There are no atheists in foxholes," he opined. "They're all in the United States of America, messing things up." "Why should I let the Devil have the best pastimes?" he exclaimed, and his genius took shape. Wynne, in a perfect real-world adaptation of Scriptural values, took the old wineskin (word puzzles) and turned it into a new wineskin, the Crossword puzzle.
- A crossword is a word puzzle, originating on Earth, which normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers.
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| - A crossword is a word puzzle, originating on Earth, which normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. Colonel Jack O'Neill is quite fond of crossword puzzles. He is, however, not very good at them—often inserting incorrect answers and asking other people, such as Dr. Daniel Jackson, for assistance. In 2004 after using an Ancient Repository of knowledge, O'Neill inserted clues vital to finding the Lost City of the Ancients in a crossword puzzle—for thirteen across Jack wrote "Taonas" (sphere) and for eight down he wrote "Proclarush" (label). However, he also wrote "Uma Thurman" in response to the clue "celestial body" and "fat" as the atomic weight of Boron. (SG1: "Lost City, Part 1")
- In 1912, Arthur Wynne was distressed at rumors abroad that Europe was gearing up for that awful blemish on Christian history, World War I. Rumors were rampant that the war was turning people into disillusioned modern socialists. "There are no atheists in foxholes," he opined. "They're all in the United States of America, messing things up." At the same time, he had noticed a certain variety of word puzzle gaining popularity in trashy newspapers. To do one of these puzzles, one had to write letters into a grid to uncover a completely secular message. This was, of course, diametrically opposed to the Bible, which did not require fooling with any written letters. Or writing letters with fools, for that matter. Nevertheless, Wynne could not deny that the masses seemed to find these puzzles...fun. "Why should I let the Devil have the best pastimes?" he exclaimed, and his genius took shape. Wynne, in a perfect real-world adaptation of Scriptural values, took the old wineskin (word puzzles) and turned it into a new wineskin, the Crossword puzzle. The name "Crossword," of course, is a clever concatenation of the Cross and the Word. True Crossword puzzles contain clues with solid faith-based messages. Some of the better Crosswords are "themed," and contain subliminal messages in the grid once the puzzle is complete. All answers are written in capital letters, echoing the Tetragrammaton. As the Crossword evolved flourished, it developed into three distinct grids: the American, the British, and the Japanese. American grids hold the most letters, because America holds the most faith. The British grid contains more black squares, because British people have more spiritual darkness. And the less said about the Japanese grid, the better. Of course, with any religious teaching, false doctrine will sneak in. There are three main varieties. The "cryptic Crossword" is simply an exercise in mistranslation. In rendering the clues of the Crossword in plain, colloquial speech, this perversion of the Crossword promotes bad theology, a distorted view of God, and a reduced vocabulary. Also problematic are the "diagramless crossword," which denies the existence of dark squares and thus original sin, and the "fill-in." The "fill-in" has no clues; the words are given, and one must fit them into the board. This promotes logic at the expense of reading the original source of clues - Scripture - and is therefore un-Biblical. During World War II, the military detained Wynne and humanely questioned him about what they believed to be secret military details in his Crossword puzzles. The charges were dropped when Wynne produced the relevant Scripture passages, which coincidentally happened to mention ships, Normandy, Germany, and a secret invasion.
- A blackboard and chalk!
- Crossword was an unsold series that may be the first attempt at a game show based around crossword puzzles.
- The solution to each "clue" is an anagram of the actual word. In order to solve the word, one must first decipher the anagram to figure out the correct word.
- "Crossword" was a regular feature of the Star Wars Insider for several issues. Crossword puzzles appear in issues 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, and 73.
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