The New York Times Strands for June 26, 2025, presents a 'Fowlbusiness' theme, challenging players to find hidden words ...

NYT Strands June 13, 2025: The New York Times published its inaugural crossword puzzle on February 15, 1942, in the Sunday Magazine. Created by Charles Erlenkotter and edited by Margaret Farrar ...

Margaret Farrar, the first crossword editor for the Times, in 1968. Photograph from NYT / Redux. It was exactly thirty-five years ago that the great crossword-puzzle craze began to sweep this country.

Had the young British writer Jack Godfrey made up the plot of “42 Balloons,” his new musical with Broadway aspirations now in its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, he’d have been ...

The New York Times published its inaugural crossword puzzle on February 15, 1942, in the Sunday Magazine. Created by Charles Erlenkotter and edited by Margaret Farrar, it was the first major ...

To bolster his suggestion, the editor attached a letter from the crossword pioneer Margaret Petherbridge Farrar. ... 1942, with Farrar as editor, and became a daily feature on September 11, 1950.