who in 1913 created what’s often cited as the world’s first crossword puzzle. There are a few notable differences between Wynne’s puzzle and those of today. His is a perfect diamond ...

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 ...

A Nieman Lab twofer: Pair this one with Lyz Lenz’s “Doing a little word puzzle as the world burns.” — LHO The first crossword puzzle ever constructed ran in the December 21, 1913 edition of The New ...

Try your hand at solving the world’s first crossword puzzle. Thursday crossword puzzles usually have a theme that asks a lot of the solver. Quigley explains a crossword puzzle theme as “the ...

That’s why we’re really excited that, just over four years since we launched crosswords on Vox, we’ve taken our wildly popular puzzles and published them in our first-ever crossword books ...

Matt Jones has been making crossword puzzles since his late teens, with one of his first puzzles appearing in The New York Times when he was just 19. His weekly puzzle Jonesin’ has appeared in ...

And last month, Juliana Pache also published her first book, "Black Crossword: 100 Mini Puzzles Celebrating The African Diaspora." Juliana Pache, thanks for joining us. PACHE: Thank you so much ...