This is the world's first crossword puzzle… so can YOU solve it?

CROSSWORDS have been baffling the British public for more than a century. The first ever puzzle of this type, which was originally called word-cross, was created by Arthur Wynne. The crossword inve…

Im new to crosswords so forgive my ignorance, but can anyone tell me what the gray boxes are and how to solve them? : r/crossword

Escaping Into the Crossword Puzzle

Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Leather-clad TV warrior / SUN 9-30-18 / Where Karl Benz debuted world's first auto / 16-ounce beers slangily / Feature of probability distribution where extreme

Can you solve the very first published crossword puzzle? ‹ Literary Hub

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A History of Newspaper Puzzles

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Have a go at the very first Sunday Times crossword — from 1925

Crossword Puzzle Day: Try to Solve the First Crossword Ever Published

The Curious History of the Crossword: 100 Puzzles from Then and Now (Volume 1) (Puzzlecraft, 1): Tausig, Ben: 9781937994457: : Books

The New Yorker leans into crossword puzzles online and, now, in print