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Crossword puzzle The first example of a crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo lllustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled Per passare il tempo (To pass the time). * Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular [rek?t??gjul?] a.长方形的，矩形的gild of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words and phrases are placed in the grid [grid]方格from left to right and from top to bottom. The shaded squares are used to separate the words or phrases. Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. On December 21, 1913, Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England, published a word-cross puzzle in the New York World that embodied most of the features of the genre as we know it. This puzzle is frequently cited as the first crossword puzzle, and Wynne as the inventor. Later, the name of the puzzle was changed to crossword. Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Will Shortz is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles. He has been the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times since 1993. Shortz is the author or editor of more than 100 books and owns over 20,000 puzzle books and magazines dating back to 1545 . Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. The record for most crosswords published in the New York Times is held by Manny Nosowsky, who has had 241 puzzles in that outlet The lowest word count in a published weekday-si