brain-teaser vs crossword

brain-teaser

noun
  • A complex riddle or puzzle. 

crossword

noun
  • The grid of such a puzzle 

  • A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word. 

How often have the words brain-teaser and crossword occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )