Across
- 2. Author of the first official crossword
- 3. what the Nazis and Soviets used crosswords for
- 7. newspaper used to recruit British codebreakers
- 9. the founding New York Times crossword editor
- 11. the codeword for D-Day accidentally appearing
- 12. one of the requirements Margaret Petherbridge instituted
- 13. term for when two obscure clues cross
Down
- 1. types of words banned when crosswords began in the NYT
- 3. what crosswords are a type of
- 4. 19_ _: the year a Broadway play about crosswords was out
- 5. the original name for crossword puzzles
- 6. where the American crossword puzzle contest is held annually
- 8. Singer of crossword mamma you puzzle me
- 10. British puzzles based on but harder than crosswords