a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues or definitions are supplied and fitted into correspondingly numbered sets of squares, one letter per square, the words being arranged horizontally or vertically so that most letters form part of two words; a crossword puzzle.

a verse or arrangement of words in which certain letters in each line, such as the first or last, when taken in order spell out a word, motto, etc.; an acrostic.

a particular mode of playing a vīṇe, one of the classical stringed instrument of Karnāṭaka system of music.