conundrum vs crossword

conundrum

noun
  • A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer. 

  • A difficult choice or decision that must be made. 

crossword

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

  • The grid of such a puzzle 

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