I met Merl Reagle for the first time at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) back in 2015. We didn’t talk for long; it was just a quick hello and a two-minute conversation. He said he ...

Crossword puzzles were more popular than ever, yet there had never been a collection in book form. So they enlisted Petherbridge and two colleagues to compile one: “The Cross Word Puzzle Book.” ...

June 09, 2025 Juliana Pache's latest 'Black Crossword' book ups the difficulty level of her puzzles on the African diaspora The Temple graduate's new crosswords are bigger than the daily mini ones ...

However, her new book, “Black Crossword: 100 Mini Puzzles Celebrating the African Diaspora,” takes the games up a notch. Released on Aug. 20, the book contains multitudes of puzzles that once ...

Thanks to our puzzle constructors — Adesina O. Koiki, Will Nediger, Patrick Blindauer, Juliana Tringali Golden, and Andrew Ries — Vox crossword puzzles will challenge, amuse, and even educate ...

In 1990, Arnot taught a course on crossword puzzle solving for the New School in Greenwich Village. That curriculum became her second book “Crossword Puzzles for Dummies.” In 2008, she published her ...

Later, when I crack open Juliana Pache’s book Black Crossword: 100 Mini Puzzles Celebrating the African Diaspora, I instantly recognize the answer to the clue for puzzle three, five down, which ...

Bernice Gordon, who delighted, bedeviled and sometimes outraged aficionados of the crossword puzzle during a six-decade career unusual not only for its longevity but the artfulness of her brain ...

I met Merl Reagle for the first time at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) back in 2015. We didn’t talk for long ...