This puzzle often is cited as the first crossword puzzle. By the 1920s, the country was immersed in a sort of crossword frenzy. According to The New York Times, the New York Public Library was ...

On its 100th anniversary, ‘King of the Crossword’ Merl Reagle spills on the strange origins of the puzzle—and his own favorite memories from decades of creating his own clues.

Michael Sharp reviews "The Curious History of the Crossword: 100 Puzzles From Then and Now," by Ben Tausig. A cultural study of crosswords interspersed with specimens from their 100-year history.

Crossword puzzles are now a commonplace activity over coffee in the morning, on the couch at night, or any time and place in between. But when the World published the first crossword puzzle 111 ...

The puzzle’s role in distracting and entertaining the student body may seem trivial, but the history of the crossword in major newspapers suggests that it provides a vital service.

These are some of the questions Shechtman poses in “The Riddles of the Sphinx,” a book too mischievously multiform to classify.It is in part a history of the crossword puzzle, which was ...