Meanings
- pluralplural of misprint
- crosswordingA crossword puzzle in which clues or answers have one letter changed.
I had a go at setting more of his specialised crosswords and then one day I had the luck to hit the jackpot. I set a Misprints puzzle and, when he returned it, Ximenes enclosed a four page letter.
2002 April 13, Eric Chalkley, “Apex Speech”, in The Crossword Centre2 more examples
A few used TOAST (again with drinking connotations) as misprint for ROAST, failing to spot perhaps that it is itself a passable definition of SWEAL and therefore less effective, if acceptable at all, in a misprints clue.
1982 December 5, “Azed Slip 556”, in The Azed Slip ArchiveXimenes introduced several new types of crossword including 'Misprints' in which misprints occur in either the clues or the answers; he also started competitions for clue-setting which became very popular among solvers.
1985, Times of India Illustrated Weekly
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of misprint
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