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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
The book was promoted with an included pencil, and "This odd-looking book with a pencil attached to it" [42] was an instant hit, leading crossword puzzles to become a craze of 1924. To help promote its books, Simon & Schuster also founded the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America, which began the process of developing standards for puzzle ...
The Clue series is a book series of 18 children's books published throughout the 1990s based on the board game Clue.The books are compilations of mini-mysteries that the reader must solve involving various crimes committed at the home of Reginald Boddy by six of his closest "friends".
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Elevator alternative — HINT: It starts with the letter "S"
Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #590 on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Tuesday, January 21, 2025 The New York Times
Tyler Hinman (born November 5, 1984) is an American competitive crossword puzzle solver and constructor and a seven-time winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). He holds the tournament record for youngest champion ever, winning as a 20-year-old in 2005, and he formerly held the record for consecutive titles with five, a feat ...
[1] [6] The newspaper started with weekly 21×21 puzzles on Fridays and added variety puzzles on Saturdays when the paper's weekend edition launched in 2005. [6] Monday crosswords ran in some editions for a few years before the Journal introduced daily weekday crosswords in September 2015; the 21×21 puzzle moved to the weekend, and Friday ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.