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  2. The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games.

  3. Feb 14, 2017 · Feb. 15, 1942. Margaret Farrar and the First New York Times Crossword. ‘Profession and passion’. The New York Times becomes the last major metropolitan daily newspaper in the country to offer...

  4. According to Eugene Maleska, former crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times, Arthur Wynne first introduced simple crosswords to the Fun page of The New York World Sunday Magazine in 1913. NPR did a 100 year anniversary special about it and reproduced Wynne's first newspaper crossword.

  5. Feb 14, 2017 · Feb. 15, 1942. The New York Times becomes the last major metropolitan daily newspaper in the country to offer a crossword puzzle — begun as a way to give readers a distraction from war news....

  6. Dec 6, 2018 · When did the NYT Crossword begin? When crossword puzzles first came about in the 1920s, the NYT turned up its nose at them. In 1924, the paper ran an opinion column that dubbed them “ a primitive sort of mental exercise .” (Here, we’re inferring they meant primitive as in “simple; unsophisticated”—Dictionary.com’s ninth entry for ...

  7. Dec 13, 2018 · Dec. 12, 2018. THURSDAY PUZZLE — When you first open your newspaper or your app to the crossword puzzle, do you examine it, or do you dive right in? Do you cast suspicious glances at the grid...

  8. Feb 18, 2024 · One constructor determined that under the two editors before Shortz, Will Weng (1969-77) and Eugene Maleska (1977-93), women constructed approximately thirty-five per cent of all published puzzles....