Here’s a crossword clue: “Words are flowing out like rain into a black-and-white grid.” The answer: “Across The Universe.” The name of Natan Last’s new book (subtitled “The Past, Present, and Future ...

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 ...

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 ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

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 ...

Kelly put her life-long love of movies, TV and books to greater use when she joined CinemaBlend as a freelance TV news writer in 2006, and went on to serve as the site’s TV Editor before joining the ...

As millions of people play The New York Times crossword Tuesday, Dec. 2, they will be working on a puzzle by Traverse City resident Jonathan Baude, who is making his NYT debut as a crossword author.

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 ...

Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science. He studied marine biology at the University of Exeter before training to become a journalist. He covers a wide range of topics including ...