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10:04 a.m. Nov. 24, 2025: A previous version of this article said Mangesh Ghogre came to the U.S. on an H-1B visa. He came on an EB-1A visa. In August, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani ...

On April 2, 1935, The Stanford Daily announced its first crossword with great fanfare. “To give students ever more service and pleasure The Daily starts today a series of Crossword Puzzles,” it wrote.

In the 1970s Will Shortz submitted a crossword to the New York Times with a word so scandalous that the editor rejected it. The word: bellybutton. Fast forward over four decades and Shortz himself is ...

Word games are knotty, paradoxical devices. They offer players the illusion of control: What could be tidier than a Scrabble board, or the orderly grid of a crossword puzzle? But they are possible ...