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Fill-in crosswords (linotipia) [teacher]
In the present area you will find instructions to build a fill-in crossword (Italian: linotipia) aimed at practicing the typical microlanguage (juridical) learnt during school project work on Italian and EU institution comparative analysis.
Instructions will be provided in the Italian language to facilitate experimentation of the product.

Instructions

A Fill-in crosswords or Fill-in crosswords puzzle is a word game in which you write the answers to questions in a pattern of numbered boxes; it is a pattern of words (from 30 to 40 ) that meet.
The player is expected to fill in the pattern entering each box with one of the available words.
Word length will help her/him choose the suitable word paying attention to crosses.
The crosswords author can enter some letters into the pattern to make the game easier and help find the correct answers.
The player ends the game correctly if he/she has entered each word into the correct box.
In order to generate a crosswords difficult to fill in, you must provide at least two words for each different length.
Short words are generally more frequent than long ones. You can write a compound word as a single one (ex. Europeanparliament) without entering any space.

A working Javascript example: try fill in crosswords
To generate a fill in crosswords like the one in the example fill in crosswords maker