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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Welcome back to Cross Reference, the crossword puzzle from JSTOR Daily! Each month, we share a new puzzle built on clues connected to ...

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Everywhere he looks, Merl Reagle sees word puzzles. A few minutes into our phone conversation, he stops mid-sentence. "Did you know that your last name anagrams perfectly into two different types of ...

What’s a 10-letter word for the 100th anniversary of something, in this case crossword puzzles? Google is celebrating the centennial of crossword puzzles Friday with an interactive doodle on its home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late 1913, New York World journalist and editor Arthur Wynne was planning the Christmas edition of "Fun," the newspaper's jokes ...

The New York World ran the first-ever “Word-Cross Puzzle” in 1913, sending other papers, including the Globe, scrambling to introduce their own. This puzzle below was published in The Boston Globe on ...

Just as Wordle has its share of detractors today (a phenomenon only magnified by social media), a look back at newspaper reports from the 1920s shows that the crossword faced its own number of critics ...

In a New York newspaper office 100 years ago, a Liverpool-born journalist called Arthur Wynne had rather a good idea. Wynne was in charge of The World’s "Fun" supplement and he’d been asked to come up ...