There’s an interesting type of “crossword” that doesn’t use a grid, but instead only has a single line of squares to be filled in. In these puzzles, answers don’t go across and down, but rather left-to-right and right-to left. So that in one direction, the solution provides the answers to one set of clues. And in the other direction, you find the answers to another set of clues.
I recently found a good example of this kind of puzzle on a site dedicated to Shakespeare (and so, it has a Shakespeare theme.) There’s also a puzzle of this kind on Trip Payne’s site. There, it’s called Spiral #1. It’s laid out in the form of a spiral, but the puzzle is the same concept.
Hey, thanks for the link. But with all of the new visitors, still nobody has posted the correct solution. (Though the Internet’s resident “Shakespeare Geek” solved it and posted a hint.) Maybe your readers can help solve it. An unsolved puzzle on my site is like an unreturned love letter.
Visitors from puzzlinks.com might also enjoy my weekly Conundrum, which often features a new (as far as I know) genre of puzzle called a Venn Diagram puzzle.
You also might enjoy the Thursday Morning Riddle, another weekly feature on the blog.