Crossword puzzles took off in the United States over a century ago, before the pastime soon spread to England.

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it?

The Marlow Murder Club’s Judith Potts isn’t the first literary sleuth to enjoy a good word puzzle—Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse and Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey had a penchant for crosswords, ...

Every answer today is a familiar three-word phrase in which the middle word is "of." The first word starts with S and the last word starts with L. This week's challenge came from Bobby Jacobs, of Glen ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WUNC listener Josh McIntyre of Raleigh, N.C., and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

The New York Times’ daily word puzzle, Connections, closed out the year with its December 31 challenge, and it felt very ...