How to Create a Crossword Puzzle

a crossword puzzle

a word game in which you write words inside boxes

feel smart

feel as if you were intelligent

think outside the box

think in a creative way

crack the puzzle

find an answer to a game

be invented

be designed as sth new

get rejected

not be accepted

someone broke through

someone succeeded in entering a place or a market

come up with sth

think of an idea, answer

your theme

the main idea repeated in a work of art

my goal is to do sth

I want to do sth

be contained there

be inside sth

in the middle of the grid

in the middle of the patern of straight lines crossing each other

this particular shape

this one shape

another one

one more

fewer black squares

a smaller number of black squares

make sure

become sure that sth is true

a number of words

several words

hidden sth

sth put in a place where no one can see it