PAST IS PROLOGUE
The Surprising History of Crossword Puzzles
A short history of that infamous homewrecker, the Crossword Puzzle
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8 min readAug 8, 2022
If Wardle is the Wardle of the Wordle, then Wynne was the Wardle of The World. Put less stupidly, Arthur Wynne’s 1913 “Word-Cross” puzzle for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper was not the first such puzzle, but it was the first…
