>"Bob Riedel" <printmat.TakeThisOut@aol.combusted> wrote:
>> Arthur Wynne's December 1913 puzzle for the New York World generally gets the
>> nod as the first true crossword puzzle. ...
William M. Klimon (wklimonxxx@cox.net) replied:
>Will Shortz has a nice article on the history of the crossword here:
>http://www.ephemerasociety.org/articles/shortz.html
....
Yesterday I picked up a book on the history of
crossword puzzles that goes into more detail and covers the
evolution of various styles of crosswords (with many examples):
Roger Millington "Crossword Puzzles - their history and their cult"
Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers, Nashville/New York (1974)
No ISBN, but the Library of Congress publication data has:
GV1507.C7M488 1975 793.73'2 75-9505
[and lists a British edition titled "The Strange World of the Crossword"
It has 51 puzzles from the history of crosswords (with solutions)
plus Sir Max Beerbohm's "impossible puzzle" from 1940 (without solution)
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