A KIND WORD ABOUT CROSSWORDS
Sep 01, 2019
3 minutes
BY ESTHER TITUS
Illustrated by Adam Larkum
text © 2019 by Esther Titus, art © 2019 by Adam Larkum
ARTHUR WYNNE SAT in his office at the New York World newspaper, deep in thought. It was Saturday, December 20, 1913. Christmas was just days away, and he wanted something special for the magazine section of Sunday’s paper. He had made use of word games before, but he wanted this to be different.
Wynne tapped his pencil absentmindedly as he thought about the word puzzles popular in his day. Acrostics,
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