Complete the 4x4 grid below, with four-letter English (too common or not) words, in both directions.

           +---+---+---+---+
           |   | Z | O |   |
           +---+---+---+---+
           |   |   | X | O |
           +---+---+---+---+
           |   |   |   | Z |
           +---+---+---+---+
           | Z |   |   |   |
           +---+---+---+---+

No proper nouns allowed.

I would be interested to see the solution.

I did a pretty exhaustive search with a crossword solver (you know one of those ridiculous programs that produces igkz as a valid four letter combination for ???z). I had a hard time coming up with a workable combination for this.

?zo? and ??xo produced nothing I would consider valid.

I did come up with a less than valid solution of:

IZOD

NEXO

EREZ

ZONE

izod, erez, and inez all came up on easypeasy.coms solver, again I doubt the validity.  nexo came up in a websearch.

I think this was the case of the voters did not want to admit that they did not know that 'ikgz' (or whatever the obscurities "really" are) is not a valid english word common or not.

Posted by john on 2005-06-16 18:17:31