Crossword Nuances

Crossword Nuances combines the challenges of vocabulary puzzles and mini-crosswords in a unique format.

Crossword Nuances can also be a review and friendly vocabulary challenge for pre-college students preparing for college admission tests.

See new Crossword Nuances puzzles below in the right column.

To see solutions to the puzzles, go to

https://crosswordnuancessolutions.blogspot.com

Friday, March 29, 2024

Puzzle 03-29-2024

Across

   1.  person who attacks well-regarded beliefs (10)

   3.  state of violent turmoil or confused movement (9)

   7.  having a long-established particular habit, activity or interest (10)

   8.  harmful, poisonous (7)

   9.  resisting control or authority (10)

10.  sound of a bell (5)

11.  increase the wealth or status of (10)

12.  merry, jovial (6)

 

Down

   2.  party to a lawsuit (8)

   4.  put down (9)

   5.  apparent, seeming (10)

   6.  tallest mountain in Africa (11)

 



 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Puzzle 03-27-2024


 


Across

    1  prior to keyboarding (6)

    3  seldom seen (4)

    7  shaky, likely to fall (10)

    8  a word often heard on Antique Roadshow (6)

    9  subject to FCC (7)

  12  Madagascar (6)

  13  to go round (5)

  14  not a facsimile (8)

 

Down

    2  body's ability to sense movement (13)

    4  ___________ Coke, English jurist (6)

    5  over-emphasizing traditional and academic rules (8)

    6  system that Marx opposed (10)

  10  ruby-colored (3)

  11  ___________ Crane in the Headless Horseman (7)

  13  state bordering Lake Erie (4)

 

 

Monday, March 25, 2024

Puzzle 03-25-2024

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 

Across

    1  belief that there are no values or morals (8)

    6  text of an opera or other vocal work (8)

    7  unimaginative, obvious and boring (5)

    8  false or distorted representation, perversion (8)

    9  beginning (5)

  10  new word or new usage of a word (9)

  12  overused, hackneyed (5)

  13  criteria for assessing a work or performance (6)

  14  puzzle, quandary (6)

  15  motivation, stimulus (7)

  16  a set of three periods in text (8)

 

Down

    2  irrefutable, without doubt (16)

    3  highly skilled musician or other artist (8)

    4  accompanying, associated, connected (11)

    5  celebrated, acclaimed, esteemed (11)

  11  refusing to change one's opinion, inflexible (8)