diagramless
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editdiagramless (not comparable)
- (crosswords) Having a blank grid, so that the solver must determine the positions of the black (non-lettered) squares as well as the answers to the clues.
- 2009 June 28, “The Redesign”, in New York Times[1]:
- I hope the addition of KenKen to the puzzles page is an accommodation to the new size, not preliminary to discontinuation of the cryptic, acrostic, diagramless, etc.
Noun
editdiagramless (plural diagramlesses)
- (crosswords) A puzzle of this kind.