Acrostic vs. Crossword

Acrosticnoun

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

Acrosticnoun

A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.

Acrosticnoun

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

Acrosticnoun

A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Acrosticnoun

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

Acrosticnoun

a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across

Acrosticnoun

verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

Acrosticnoun

a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος and στίχος .

Crosswordnoun

A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.

Crosswordnoun

a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle

Crossword

A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The game's goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues, which lead to the answers.