![]() ![]() ![]() The design of Japanese crossword grids often follows two additional rules: that shaded cells may not share a side (i.e. They may not be orthogonally contiguous) and that the corner squares must be white. ![]() The "Swedish-style" grid (picture crosswords) uses no clue numbers. Instead, clues are contained in the cells which do not contain answers, with arrows indicating where and in what direction to fill in answers. Arrows can be omitted from clue cells, in which case the convention is for the answer to go horizontally to the right of the clue cell, or – if the clue cell is split vertically and contains two clues – for the answer to go horizontally to the right for the top clue and vertically below for the bottom clue. This style of grid is also used in several countries other than Sweden, often in magazines, but also in daily newspapers. These puzzles usually have no symmetry in the grid but instead often have a common theme (literature, music, nature, geography, events of a special year, etc.) The grid often has one or more photos replacing a block of squares as a clue to one or several answers for example, the name of a pop star, or some kind of rhyme or phrase that can be associated with the photo. Substantial variants from the usual forms exist. Two of the common ones are barred crosswords, which use bold lines between squares (instead of shaded squares) to separate answers, and circular designs, with answers entered either radially or in concentric circles. ![]()
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