two-speed crossword

noun

A crossword puzzle allowing the solver to choose from two sets of clues: simple or cryptic.

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Meanings

nountwo-speed crossword (plural two-speed crosswords)

plural two-speed crosswords

  1. A crossword puzzle allowing the solver to choose from two sets of clues: simple or cryptic.

    I had been doing the cryptic version of the Star's two-speed crossword since my days as a junior proofreader in the Department of Posts and Telecommunications.

    2006, Ivan Vladislavić, The Restless Supermarket, page 46
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    A quantitative analysis performed on 20 puzzles (523 clue-answer pairs) from The Times (cryptic puzzles; Browne 2009), The Guardian (non-cryptic puzzles; Rusbridger 11.–16.05.2013) and The Sun (two-speed crosswords giving a non-cryptic and a cryptic clue for each answer; N.N. 2009) confirms the basic distinction between the two types […]

    2016, Christoph Schubert, Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English, page 116
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