On this day: annual celebration of grid-based word puzzles (9,3)

Sunday, 21st December 2014 by

That’s right - today is Crossword Day! Whether you prefer cryptic, quick, diagramless, or the countless other variations, it’s a day to celebrate crosswords in all their forms.

Crossword Day

You’ll need a really big pen (oh, and a knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet) to complete the world’s largest crossword puzzle, which is found on the side of a 30m-tall building in Lviv, Ukraine. Clues are found throughout the city at important landmarks such as museums and monuments. Once you think you have solved all the clues you can visit the building at night when the answers appear in fluorescent paint.

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Ian Brown lives in Ottawa, Canada, and spends his spare time perusing maps to find new routes to ride on his orange bicycle.