died Thursday at her Philadelphia home. She was 101. The cause was heart disease, said her son, Jim Lanard. Gordon’s first crossword was published in the New York Times in 1952. Over the next ...

Crossword puzzle creator Merl Reagle, whose Sunday puzzles for the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers were known for their wit, puns and wicked inventiveness, died Saturday in a Tampa ...

Once, Mr. Reagle told the St. Petersburg Times, “crossword humor” was an oxymoron ... Washington Post Magazine and in many newspapers, died Aug. 22 in a hospital in Tampa.

Crosswords caught on in the first half of the 20th century, but the New York Times, whose puzzle is now famous, didn't publish a crossword until 1942. Illustration by Adam Simpson On a blustery ...