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Crossword puzzles have long been used as a narrative crutch in fiction, usually in mystery stories. the usual gimmick is to have a puzzle published on a certain day revealing something vital to the plot.

There are also stories revolving around a crossword puzzle which is part of the book, to be filled in by the reader -- these can become quite tedious as the author wracks his/her brain for ways to keep the story going and the puzzle clues coming.

There is even an entire series of crossword puzzle mysteries by the pseudonymous "Nero Blanc". See link to Publishers Weekly review of the latest one.

There is also the true story of the newspaper crossword puzzle that predicted the time and place of the Normandy Invasion in the Second World War. The puzzle, the newspaper, and the puzzle constructor were all thoroughly investigated and it turned out to be nothing more a coincidence.

Anybody love crossword!?

He invented them. And I love crossword puzzles!

Arthur Wynne (1862 - 1945), born Liverpool, England, was a British editor and puzzle constructor in his home country and the United States of America. He invented the crossword puzzle in 1913.

He worked for the New York World, then one day was asked to invent a new game for the paper. Wynne thought of a game he had played in his childhood called Magic Squares, and soon came up with the crossword Puzzle, which was first issued in the December 21st, 1913 issue of the World.

It was originally called a Word-Cross Puzzle and was diamond shaped and had no black spaces.

Soon, it became cross-word then crossword, and had black spaces. Arthur came out with his first crossword puzzle book in 1924.

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I would like to get easy crossword puzzle?

I do crossword puzzles almost everyday. It's not about being easy as much as it is repetition. I get a local newspaper ever day. Doing the same puzzle from the same source eventually becomes easier. I also have a hand held electronic dictionary Roget's11: new thesaurus from Seko instruments. If you have ?? v? going down push enter and it will give a selection of words. Also the Thesaurus will find words that mean the same for you. example (yes) =aye or yea.