The difference between Acrostic and Crossword
When used as nouns, acrostic means a poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message, whereas crossword means a word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.
check bellow for the other definitions of Acrostic and Crossword
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Acrostic as a noun:
A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
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Acrostic as a noun:
A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.
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Crossword as a noun (games, puzzles):
A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.