They get nothing out of it except a primitive sort of mental exercise, and success or failure in any given attempt is equally irrelevant to mental development.”Īlmost two decades later, says Shortz, “as the story goes, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger had become tired of turning to the competing Herald Tribune for its crossword and decided The Times should have its 17, 1924, the crossword puzzle, “is not a game at all, and it hardly can be called a sport: it merely is a new utilization of leisure by those for whom it otherwise would beĮmpty and tedious. According to an opinion column, entitled “ A Familiar Form of Madness,” Last remaining newspapers in the United States to run one.
Word’ puzzle.” Since then, the name has remained unchanged.ĭespite the widespread success of the puzzle, especially after the fledgling publisher Simon & Schuster came out with a collection of crosswords in 1924 (their very first book), The New York Times was one of the Two weeks later, according to Will Shortz, the New York Times’ crossword editor, “a compositor accidentally transposed the words in the title to ‘Cross Its popularity promptedĪnother iteration the following week.
After settling on that format, he formulated the clues and answers that would populate the grid in the style that is now familiar toĭespite one editor’s note that the staff at the paper “regarded the game as ‘beneath a sensible man’s consideration,'” the puzzle was a hit with readers. His solution was a diamond-shaped grid that could be read both across and down. Yet featured in “Fun” was the world’s first crossword puzzle, introduced as the “Word-Cross.”Īrthur Wynn, editor of the Fun section, “was determined to feature something new and special in the Christmas issue,” according to Michelle Arnot, author of “ What’s Gnu: A History of the Crossword Puzzle.” Next to these stories, the lighthearted Fun supplement introduced that day would not seem
Rise after AT&T relinquishes its holdings of the Western Union Telegraph Company to mollify the Department of Justice. 21, 1913: woman in Yonkers is robbed at gunpoint, aviator Glenn Curtiss vows to make the world’s first transatlantic flight and phone stocks Among the items that appeared in The New York Sunday World on Dec.
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