| SOLVE | Work on a crossword puzzle |
| ACR | Down's opposite on a crossword puzzle for short |
| ERASURE | Mark on a crossword tournament puzzle |
| LIGHT | Blank square to be filled with a letter on a crossword grid; or, illumination from the sun (5) |
| MERL | Reagle who was a special guest on a crossword episode of "The Simpsons" |
| EDAMAME | Cheese put on a crossword setter's Japanese dish |
| EMBED | Insert, as a crossword puzzle on a website |
| SCRABBLE | Board-and-tile game in which two to four players compete in forming words with lettered tiles on a 225-square board, like words in a crossword puzzle. (8) |
| GRID | A network of intersecting lines forming a pattern of squares, observed in everyday things such as a crossword puzzle, map, piece of graph paper, spreadsheet or trellis (4) |
| COMICS | They're often on the same page with a crossword puzzle |
| AHA | Exclamation when you solve a tricky clue in a crossword puzzle |
| BORED | Like a student solving a crossword puzzle in class, maybe |
| SETTING | Environment for making up a crossword puzzle |
| ONEACROSS | The first clue in a crossword puzzle (3,6) |
| HORIZONTAL | Like across answers in a crossword puzzle |
| ACROSS | Down's counterpart in a crossword puzzle |
| PEN | What someone might use to solve a crossword puzzle |
| GAELIC | Language where a crossword puzzle is "toimhseachan crois-fhacal" |
| SOLVER | Person doing a crossword puzzle, e.g. |
| EXERCISETHEMIND | Do a crossword puzzle, e.g. |
