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For more on USA TODAY’s Crossword Puzzles. USA TODAY’s Daily Crossword Puzzles. Sudoku & Crossword Puzzle Answers. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Crossword Blog & Answers for ...
The motivating impulse for the Times to finally run the puzzle (which took over 20 years even though its publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, was a longtime crossword fan) appears to have been the bombing of Pearl Harbor; in a memo dated December 18, 1941, an editor conceded that the puzzle deserved space in the paper, considering what was ...
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
He was drawn to puzzles at an early age; in eighth grade he wrote a paper titled "Puzzles as a Profession". [4] (The paper earned him a B+.) [4] At age 13, Shortz wrote to Language on Vacation author Dmitri Borgmann for advice on how to pursue a career in puzzles. [5] At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell ...
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Double acrostics, stylized Victorian ancestors of today's crossword puzzle: 1967 Oct: Problems that are built on the knight's move in chess 1967 Nov: A mixed bag of logical and illogical problems to solve 1967 Dec: Game theory is applied (for a change) to games 1968 Jan: The beauties of the square, as expounded by Dr. Matrix to rehabilitate the ...
The New York Times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, [13] contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; [14] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, The New York Times began offering its newspaper online, and along with it the crossword puzzles, allowing readers to solve puzzles on their computers.
No. 13 BYU remained undefeated and improved to 7-0 (4-0 in the Big 12) with a 38-35 win over Oklahoma State on Friday night in Provo, Utah.. Jake Retzlaff hit Darius Lassiter for a 35-yard ...