Crossword puzzles took off in the United States over a century ago, before the pastime soon spread to England.

For years, crosswords have been a popular pastime, stretching brains and broadening vocabularies. The happy click of a pen against paper has for years been a sign of victory over a vexing clue. But in ...

Printers published the first crossword puzzles in England in children's books and other publications. They were simple word games derived from the word squares where letters were arranged in a square ...

Finally, in this puzzle from May 27, every Across answer in this puzzle is thematic. It took the most time to make of any ...

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US Presidents with odd birth months. The sound a flyswatter makes. These and other peculiar clues make up today’s NYT Mini ...

A Mini Crossword is typically just 10 to 20 clues, with only Saturday’s puzzle on the upper end of that spread. Here’s what a ...