opiate. 1  a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain. 2  any sedative, soporific, or narcotic. 3  anything that causes dullness or inaction or that soothes the feelings. 4  mixed or prepared with opium. 5  inducing sleep; soporific; narcotic. 6  causing dullness or inaction. 7  to subject to an opiate; stupefy.
Each puzzle has one and only one unique solution, and each can be solved using only pure logical deduction-guessing and trial-and-error methods are never required for these puzzles. If you're new to numbergrids, try the smaller puzzles first, then move on to the larger ones.
In a diagramless crossword, often called a diagramless for short or, in the UK, a skeleton crossword or carte blanche, the grid offers overall dimensions, but the locations of most of the clue numbers and shaded squares are unspecified.any American crossword puzzles feature a theme consisting of a number of long entries (generally three to five in a standard 15Ã15-square weekday-size puzzle) that share some relationship, type of pun, or other element in common.