Thinking inside the box adventures with crosswords and the puzzling people who can't live without them
"The crossword is a feature of the modern world, inspiring daily devotion and obsession from not just everyday citizens looking to pass the time but icons of American life, such as Bill Clinton, Yo-Yo Ma, and Martha Stewart. It was invented in 1913, almost by accident, when a newspaper editor at the...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- FUN : Arthur Wynne, Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, and the origins of the puzzle
- The cross word puzzle book and the crossword craze
- How to construct a crossword
- Pleasantville, New York : Will Shortz
- The crossword hyacinth : England and the cryptic crossword
- World War II and the Gray Lady
- The Oreo war : race, gender, and the puzzle
- Krossvords and mots-croisés
- Tournament of champions
- Decoding the crossword
- This is not a crossword
- Crosswords and the media : the crossword in the digital age
- The hardest crossword
- Epilogue: A crossword crossing.
