Double-Crostic

Double-Crostic
/dub"euhl kraw"stik, -kros"tik/, Trademark.
a word game in which the player suits word definitions to numbered spaces to produce a quotation, the first letters of the definitions forming the name of the author and of the work from which the quote comes.

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