Printer's Devilry
English edit
Noun edit
- Alternative letter-case form of printer's devilry (“crossword puzzle”)
- 1968, Albert Ross Eckler, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics:
- In addition, based on a British form called "Printer's Devilry," each answer word has been " stolen" from its clue, wherein it was originally hidden as consecutive letters.
- 1971, New York Magazine, page 65:
- Solvers must not only complete the diagram but also send in a "Printer's Devilry" clue to the Keyword in the Playfair Square.
- 2013, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- He set frequently for the Listener between 1932 and 1948, concocting such exoticisms as Printer's Devilry, Playfair and Word Ladder.