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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.
Feb 14, 2017 · FEB. 14, 2017. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a New York Times editor made the decision to run a crossword puzzle in the paper to offer relief to its war-weary readers. Seventy-five years...
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.
Feb 14, 2017 · The New York World publishes the world's first crossword puzzle by the newspaperman Arthur Wynne. It becomes instantly popular with readers. Nov. 17, 1924. An editorial in The New York...
Sep 25, 2022 · Notably, the New York Times was a long-time holdout but began publishing crosswords as a way to help the public distract themselves from the news during World War II. The first New York Times crossword puzzle ran on Sunday, February 15, 1942, but it did not become a daily feature until 1950.
The daily Crossword puzzles are printed in the Arts section of the print edition of The New York Times Monday through Saturday. The Sunday Crossword puzzle is printed in the Sunday...
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In February 1942, The New York Times crossword debuted in The New York Times Magazine; according to Richard Shepard, the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 convinced then-publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the necessity of a crossword.
