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