1 (also jigsaw puzzle) (both BrE) (also puzzle AmE, BrE) a picture printed on cardboard or wood, that has been cut up into a lot of small pieces of different shapes that you have to fit together again:
to do a jigsaw
2 a mysterious situation in which it is not easy to understand all the causes of what is happening; a complicated problem:
If Hollis was a double agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw.
3 a SAW (= a type of tool) with a fine blade for cutting designs in thin pieces of wood or metal
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