Sunday, 4 October 2026

Krestoslovitsa No. 78 in a 1943 émigré newspaper, the forgotten Russian name for a crossword

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Newspaper clipping with the grid of crossword No. 78, showing numbered rows and columns and black squares, with part of a decorative heading above.

Krestoslovitsa ("cross-wordery") is the forgotten Russian name for the crossword. If you are sure of your breadth of knowledge and pride yourself on your erudition, do try your hand at this puzzle from an émigré newspaper of 1943.

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