Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of printer's devilry (“crossword puzzle”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
A type of crossword puzzle where solvers have to identify the string of letters, spelling out a word, that has been removed from a sentence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: crosswording
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noun
A typographical error.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
Formed by printer's devil + -ry or blend of printer's devil + devilry. As a crosswording term, coined by British crossword setter Alistair Ferguson Ritchie (Afrit).
