"to drive along the first of a crisscross of back streets "
What's the meaning of "the first of a crisscross"?
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Do you know the game 'noughts and crosses'? Imagine that the space between each line in this game is a street. We would say that the streets "crisscross," meaning that there are lots of streets that cross each other.
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In this case it means that he has entered into a series of intersecting streets. The 'first' implies that there are more intersecting streets.
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