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Cheat on crossword puzzles with Yahoo! Search Assist

Yahoo! Crossword puzzle
Ever look in a crossword puzzle dictionary? It's not a dictionary in the traditional sense, with words and definitions. Rather, it connects words, places, ideas in all sorts of ways that could only possibly be useful if you're working on a difficult puzzle or studying for the SATs.

But if you think about it, a search engine kind of does the same thing. So it's not too surprising to see Yahoo! and the New York Times partnering on a special edition crossword puzzle to show off Yahoo!'s new Search Assist service.

Under each clue is a "search for hint" button. Click on it and you get a ton of possible results in the little blue box below the crossword puzzle. There are a few hints that actually don't work very well in a search engine, but for the most part your answers are just a click away making this both the easiest and most boring crossword puzzle ever.

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Wordcoil - Today's Time Waster

wordcoil gameIt's a cross between a crossword and a word search: Word Coil. Starting with the first letter of a word in a grid of letters, you find the rest of the word coiling inside the grid, connected, but not moving in one direction. Really ingenious, and if you like word games, and seek-and-find style action, you'll be here for a while. Thanks to Jason T. for sending this in!

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