This Day in Information: The First Crossword Puzzle

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Today in 1913, Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England, published the first crossword puzzle in the New York World. According to Jen Carlson, a New York Times editorial in 1924 called it “a primitive form of mental exercise.”

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