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 ...

Crossword puzzles are now a staple of newspapers, but that wasn’t always the case. The first modern crossword, as we know it today, appeared in the New York World on 21 December 1913. Arthur Wynne, ...

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it? On Dec. 21, 1913, the New York World, a prominent New ...