Editing Crossword (section)

== Notation ==
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Originally Petherbridge called the two dimensions of the crossword puzzle "Horizontal" and "Vertical". Among various numbering schemes, the standard became that in which only the start squares of each word were numbered, from left to right and top to bottom. "1 Horizontal" and "1 Vertical" and the like were names for the clues, the cross words, or the grid locations, interchangeably.

Later in the ''Times'' these terms commonly became "across" and "down" and notations for clues could either use the words or the letters "A" and "D", with or without hyphens.