Are You A Crossword Puzzle Solver?
You know who you are. You're reading a newspaper, or a magazine, and there it is. A grid with some of the squares blackened out, some of the others with tiny numbers. Then there are the definitions. 1 Across. 37 Down. You grab for the nearest pencil (or maybe you're adventurous and it's a pen) and a compulsion guides you to begin filling in those squares with letters that become words.
Yes. You. Are. A. Crossword. Addict.
Go ahead. Say it. Remember, the first step is admitting you have the problem.
If you are like millions of other people around the world you take great pleasure in filling in those grids with the right letters. Word overlaps word and you sometimes wonder how in the world do these people come up with these puzzles?
Along with the pleasure comes not some measure of frustration when you are missing just one or two letters and neither the definition for 46 down or 52 across helps you. Of course, there are all sorts of crossword dictionaries out there, but now, thanks to the Library's subscription to the Credo Reference database, you have an online help through the Crossword Solver.
It's easy to use. (1) Click on the link; (2) enter your crossword letters in the box; (3) use a question mark (?) in place of unknown letters; or to solve an anagram, enter all the letters.
Examples: pu??le, ma?ic; or itger, parge. Let's put these in and see what we get.
pu??le yielded puddle, purfle, purple and puzzle while ma?ic gives you magic, mafic, malik, manic and matic.
The anagram "itger" can be converted to riget, tiger, tigre, or trieg. "Parge" becomes gaper, grape, pager, perga, or prega.
So break out those crossword puzzle books or open the newspaper to the puzzle section - and keep the computer nearby!
Yes. You. Are. A. Crossword. Addict.
Go ahead. Say it. Remember, the first step is admitting you have the problem.
If you are like millions of other people around the world you take great pleasure in filling in those grids with the right letters. Word overlaps word and you sometimes wonder how in the world do these people come up with these puzzles?
Along with the pleasure comes not some measure of frustration when you are missing just one or two letters and neither the definition for 46 down or 52 across helps you. Of course, there are all sorts of crossword dictionaries out there, but now, thanks to the Library's subscription to the Credo Reference database, you have an online help through the Crossword Solver.
It's easy to use. (1) Click on the link; (2) enter your crossword letters in the box; (3) use a question mark (?) in place of unknown letters; or to solve an anagram, enter all the letters.
Examples: pu??le, ma?ic; or itger, parge. Let's put these in and see what we get.
pu??le yielded puddle, purfle, purple and puzzle while ma?ic gives you magic, mafic, malik, manic and matic.
The anagram "itger" can be converted to riget, tiger, tigre, or trieg. "Parge" becomes gaper, grape, pager, perga, or prega.
So break out those crossword puzzle books or open the newspaper to the puzzle section - and keep the computer nearby!
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