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English Thesaurus

1. verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	literary composition, literary work,
definition	:	imaginative or creative writing (noun.communication)

2. a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	mystifier, puzzle, puzzler, teaser,
definition	:	a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution (noun.communication)