Our free mini version of the classic crossword puzzle with a business twist. Perfect for the crossword enthusiast who only has a few minutes between meetings. New puzzles go live five days a week, ...

Last September, Texas Monthly debuted a new monthly column in the magazine: a Texas-themed crossword puzzle. The puzzle constructor who devises these for us is Brandon Koppy, a resident of Dripping ...

Love a good crossword puzzle? Word-game enthusiasts may be glad to know that the first-ever crossword puzzle was published around this time over a century ago. According to Guinness World Records, the ...

Anna Shechtman is an assistant professor of literature at Cornell, an editor-at-large at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the author of “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Plain Dealer’s holiday crossword puzzle is an annual holiday tradition, filling an entire newspaper page plus much of a second. People tell us their families have made the ...

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it? On Dec. 21, 1913, the New York World, a prominent New ...

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On a chilly January night in 1924, fledgling publisher Richard Simon was having dinner with his Aunt Wixie when she asked if he knew where she could buy a book of crossword puzzles. None existed. At ...

In August, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani hosted a citywide scavenger hunt, inviting voters to scour the boroughs in search of historic political sites. (Grand prize: a bag of chips.) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Well, the first step here is that if you’re doing this ...

See the clues, discuss the puzzle and read a Q&A with Christina Iverson, who constructed it. By Isaac Aronow This page contains everything you could ever want to know about this year’s Super Mega ...