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, ...

The crossword puzzle was “invented by Arthur Wynne in 1913 and quickly denigrated as a frivolously feminine pursuit. The press delighted in framing the crossword craze that erupted in the 1920s as a ...