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perimetrical en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, qualifier:crosswording) Ellipsis of perimetrical jigsaw.
    • Country priest, reflective chap, getting stuck into Araucaria’s “Perimetricals” 2021, Enigmatist, “Feb 2021 extra”, in 3D Calendar Puzzles:
    • He also invented incredibly complicated puzzles. […] The perimetricals, in which all the outside letters spell out a phrase and the answers have to be fitted into the frame. 2013 November 26, Simon Hoggart, “Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies”, in The Guardian:

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perimetricals Number=Plur lexicographic