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  1. Feb 14, 2017 · 75 Years of Crosswords. FEB. 14, 2017. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a New York Times editor made the decision to run a crossword puzzle in the paper to offer relief to its war-weary readers ...

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    The lowest word count in a published weekday-size 15x15 puzzle is the June 29, 2013 The New York Times crossword by Joe Krozel, with just 50 words. [56] The fewest shaded squares in a 15x15 American crossword is 17 (leaving 208 white spaces), set by the July 27, 2012 Times crossword by Joe Krozel. [57]

  3. Feb 5, 2018 · December 21st, 1913. First, there was Arthur. Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England, created the very first crossword puzzle. This first crossword was published in the New York World. Originally deemed a “word-cross puzzle,” it appeared as below. History of Crosswords: The very first puzzle. Today, we’ve recreated the world ...

  4. Dec 6, 2018 · The first puzzle ran Sunday, February 15, 1942, and it was, in fact, a primitive pursuit, (Dictionary.com’s first definition for the adjective: “Being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence”), as they were the first major US paper to run a crossword puzzle. By 1950, the paper began running a crossword puzzle daily.

  5. May 10, 2012 · The most famous crossword in the world appears each day in The Times, and has done each day since 1930. At first, its more stuffy readers objected strongly to such an outrageous pandering to popular taste, so the paper hastily gave them a Latin and a Greek crossword to show that there was nothing undignified about such puzzles.

  6. The puzzle proved popular, and Sulzberger himself authored a Times puzzle before the year was out. [10] In 1950, the crossword became a daily feature. That first daily puzzle was published without an author line, and as of 2001 the identity of the author of the first weekday Times crossword remained unknown. [12]

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  8. Dec 17, 2022 · Birth of the Crossword. In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ushered the United States into World War II and the New York Times Crossword into print. 11 days after Pearl Harbor, Lester ...

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