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Sunday February the 15th 1942 was when the New York Times ran their first crossword puzzle. They had resisted prior to that date as they thought crossword puzzles were frivolous.
The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) which published the NEA Crossword Daily Puzzle is no longer publishing the crossword puzzles.
Wynne's puzzle first appeared in the December 21, 1913 edition of the World, as one of the "Fun" section's "mental exercises." It was diamond-shaped, without blackened-out squares, and with easy clues.
Crossword puzzles were first created by Arthur Wynne and the first one was published in a Sunday newspaper, The New York World, on December 21, 1913.
Arthur Wynne created the first modern crossword for the New York World in their edition of December 21, 1913.
The first modern crossword puzzle was published on December 21, 1913.
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The first crossword puzzle was published in The New York Times on February 15, 1942.
Sunday February the 15th 1942 was when the New York Times ran their first crossword puzzle. They had resisted prior to that date as they thought crossword puzzles were frivolous.
Arthur Wynne was the British-born inventor of the crossword puzzle.
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The New York World newspaper published what is usually considered to be the first crossword puzzle on December 21, 1913. The puzzle was compiled by Arthur Wynne, and was called "FUN's Word-Cross Puzzle". The answer to the first clue was "sales".
The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) which published the NEA Crossword Daily Puzzle is no longer publishing the crossword puzzles.
Wynne's puzzle first appeared in the December 21, 1913 edition of the World, as one of the "Fun" section's "mental exercises." It was diamond-shaped, without blackened-out squares, and with easy clues.
The first example of a crossword search puzzle was seen on September 14 1890 by Guiseppe Airoldi. It was in the Italian magazine II Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was a four by four grid with no shaded squares with horizontal and vertical clues.
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The first known example of a crossword appeared in 1890 in an Italian magazine named 'something to pass the time'. The modern style of puzzle was published at the end of 1913