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British television game show (1985–1998)
the British game show

Crosswits is a British game show produced by Tyne Tees in association with Cove Productions and Action Time, and filmed from Tyne Tees' City Road studios in Newcastle upon Tyne. First shown on 3 September 1985, it was originally hosted by Barry Cryer for the first two series; comedian Tom O'Connor then took over from series 3 until the show ended on 23 December 1998. The show consisted of two members of the public competing against each other to solve simple crossword puzzles. A "celebrity" partner helped each member of the public. The announcers for the show were generally Tyne Tees continuity announcers such as Judi Lines, Jonathan Morrell and Bill Steel.

The winning team was shown one last crossword puzzle, with 10 words none of which are clues to a master puzzle. The host reads rapid fire clues to each of the 10 words. Each correct words brings the winning team extra closer to a holiday for the contestant, and if they can solve all ten clues in 60 seconds or less, they'll win the holiday, otherwise the winning player wins a gold pen and pencil set.

The first series aired on Tuesday afternoons at 3pm, apart from TVS who aired the series on Thursday afternoons at the same time.

The second series aired on Monday evenings at 6:30pm in the Tyne Tees region. The rest of the regions aired the series on Tuesday afternoons at 3pm.

The third series aired on Tuesday to Thursday afternoons at 2pm, apart from TVS which aired the series on Monday afternoons at 3pm, but did not air all the episodes, and Channel which aired the series on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons at 3pm.

From the fourth series up until the tenth series, the show aired on Monday to Friday mornings at 9:25am, just after TV am/GMTV had finished.

The eleventh series aired on Monday to Friday afternoons but was not networked. Depending on the region, it aired at random times in certain areas. Carlton, Central, Tyne Tees, Westcountry and Yorkshire had shown the series at 1:25pm. Ulster aired the episodes at 1:55pm. Grampian put the shows out at 2:50pm. Scottish aired the episodes at 2:20pm, but only four times a week. Border and Granada aired the episodes at 5:10pm most days. Anglia and Meridian aired the episodes on most days at 12:55pm. Anglia continued to broadcast more episodes, finishing on 24 January 1997. HTV aired over half the episodes at 2:25pm, but did not complete the run.

The twelfth series aired on Tuesday to Thursday afternoons at 1:50pm for the first 33 episodes from 6 January to 19 March. The last three episodes aired from 21 to 23 December 1998.