Crossword puzzles took off in the United States over a century ago, before the pastime soon spread to England.

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — You could say Michelle Arnot has made her life in a series of boxes. Specifically, the boxes that hold weight in Arnot’s life are the kind you find arranged in a grid at the back of a ...