Focus: 100 Years of the Crossword

For my Friday page, I wanted to do something special for the 100th birthday of the crossword puzzle on Saturday. Back in September, I contacted the kid who creates the puzzles the O.C. Register runs in its community papers. We commissioned him to come up with a special 100th anniversary puzzle. I ran the puzzle, a bio of the kid -- he's an 11th grader -- a very brief history of crosswords aggregated from two or three sources and the actual first puzzle itself. I got lots of nice feedback on this. Thanks to David for making it work out so well. Friday, Dec. 20, 2013.

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