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.


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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  1. 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.

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