TechWords Interactive Wikipedia Crossword (Number 004)

Tony Austin
Friday, 08 August 2008 14:15

Opinion and Analysis

One of the brightest stars in the firmament of the Web is Wikipedia. Whether you like it, distrust it, actively contribute to it or just make use of its vast knowledge resources, there's no doubt whatsoever that Wikipedia is a great boon. And you'll be hitting it hard in your quest for today's TechWords answers!

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. So wails poor old King Richard III of England, not long before he falls at Bosworth Field to the invading Earl of Richmond (soon to be Henry VII), in Shakespeare's famous drama.

Well now, I suspect that you'll be feeling like poor old Richard when you test your mettle against against today's iTWire Puzzler! But instead of being deserted like Richard you'll have an ever-present and faithful ally in the form of Wikipedia.

You might use Google or other search tools to work out your answers, but you'll probably find most of them just using Wikipedia. ... And be forewarned: just a few short hours after generating the puzzler, I couldn't even work out the answers myself and had to resort to good old Wikipedia!

You have a double challenge with this one. Firstly, using the each clue you have to find the correct answer via Wikipedia research. And then you have to locate where the answer is located in the puzzle, which is complicated by the fact that some of the answers are diagonally positioned and this makes it a lot harder to do. So this puzzle is a real brain teaser!
 

Click on the image below to launch Puzzler number 004 in a new non-refreshing window: