Crossword puzzle : Understanding implicit meaning in English

Ready to go beyond the literal? This crossword challenges your ability to decode what’s left unsaid in English — from subtle connotations and loaded vocabulary to idiomatic undertones and implied attitudes. Working at C1 level, you’ll sharpen your sensitivity to context, tone, and subtext. Because in English, what matters most is often what isn’t explicitly stated.

Horizontalement

1. 2. Continuing until now
2. 2. Continuing up to a point in time
3. 3. Reason behind a behavior or statement
4. 7. To use the mind to consider
5. 7. to believe or consider something
6. 7. To believe or consider something
7. 9. overused and lacking originality
8. 10. Used for persuasive effect in speech
9. 11. Using figures of speech, not literal
10. 15. Associated meaning beyond literal sense
11. 16. Past form of can in reporting
12. 16. Past form of can used in backshift
13. 17. Are not in short form

Verticalement

1. 1. Asking about place or location
2. 1. Question word for place
3. 2. Hidden meaning beneath the surface
4. 4. Many times frequently
5. 5. Related to language use in context
6. 6. Something suggested without being stated
7. 8. Rise and fall of voice conveying meaning
8. 12. Lasting a short time
9. 13. For repeated past actions
10. 14. Before all others in order