October's Answers

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Across
  1. 3. the newspaper that refused to publish any crossswords until 1942 because they considered it "a primitive form of mental exercise"
  2. 4. (abbreviation) the group created by Simon & Schusuter that standardized the appearance of crossword puzzles
  3. 5. the publishers of the first crossword puzzle book
  4. 8. the only word given in the first crossword puzzle
  5. 9. this man holds a record for most crossword puzzles published at 75,000
  6. 11. the british creator of the first crossword puzzle in 1913
  7. 12. the publisher that bought Simon & Schuster
  8. 13. a movie produced in 1925 starring Pete Gordon
  9. 14. publisher of the first "Quickway" Dictionary
Down
  1. 1. the name of a newspaper that published a heart shaped crossword for Valentine's Day in 1925
  2. 2. the singer of the song "Cross-word mamma, you puzzle me (But papa's gonna figure you out)"
  3. 6. the alias of the man who invented "cryptic crosswords"
  4. 7. the first name for crosswords
  5. 10. a person skillful in creating or solving crossword puzzles