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    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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