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

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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 ...

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

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 ...

The Globe and Mail’s annual giant holiday crossword, constructed by Fraser Simpson for more than 20 years, is on newsstands ...

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it?

THURSDAY PUZZLE — There are two kinds of constructors: those who want to have a relatively easy time filling and cluing a ...

Here's today's NYT Mini Crossword answer. These answers will help you solve New York Times' popular crossword game, Mini Crossword, every day!

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The Plain Dealer’s holiday crossword puzzle is an annual holiday tradition, filling an entire newspaper page plus much of a ...