Fact 229: Who was the first person to create and published the crossword?
Fact 229: Who was the first person to create and published the crossword?
The first crossword was invented and published in America in 1913 by a British journalist from Liverpool named Arthur Wynne after he emigrated to the America in the 1890's. The first crossword was published on a page in The New York World on a page called the Fun page of The New York World on 21 December 1913.
the crossword he created was the first ever crossword and he called it a word cross (and a FUN's Word-Cross Puzzle) due to the cross like shape in the middle of the first crossword Arthur Wynne created.
The name Crossword comes from a typing or printing error that printed the puzzle's name in reverse so the title became Cross-Word (puzzle) and the name just stuck (unsurprisingly because the is what we call them today).
The New York World was a newspaper that began in 1860 and stopped in 1931.
