English Crosswords

It is well known that solving crosswords is one of the best ways to relax and learn new things. People in all ages are using crosswords to calm nerves and train their brains.

Our English Crosswords have following features:

- full English version

- crosswords save automatically so you can continue when you want

- crosswords are generated automatically and randomly. There is almost infinite number of possibilities!

- a lot of questions, watchwords to solve. We are constantly adding more!

- 5 colour themes to choose

- SOS button in case you do not know the answer

- 3 different crosswords sizes to choose

- 3 difficulty levels:

+ easy - correct letters and answers are highlighted

+ normal - only correct answers are highlighted

+ hard - no highlighting

- screen auto adjustment

- thematic questions

Train your brain and have fun! You will improve your knowledge in no time.

Our English crosswords are very good for learning English. Try for yourself!

Crosswords History*:

The title for the world's first crossword puzzle is disputed. Some such puzzles were included in The Stockton Bee (1793–1795), an ephemeral publication.[10] The phrase "cross word puzzle" was first written in 1862 by Our Young Folks in the United States. Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873.[11] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's puzzle was a four-by-four grid with no shaded squares; it included horizontal and vertical clues.[12]

Crosswords in England during the 19th century were of an elementary kind, apparently derived from the word square, a group of words arranged so the letters read alike vertically and horizontally, and printed in children's puzzle books and various periodicals.

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".[13][14]

Although Eugene T. Maleska is usually credited with the first crossword phrase (as opposed to a single word) in the New York Times, an 1862 puzzle in the Lady's Book had phrases that are considered modern such as the expression "I did it".

Crossword puzzles became a regular weekly feature in the World, and spread to other newspapers; the Pittsburgh Press, for example, was publishing them at least as early as 1916[15] and the Boston Globe by 1917.[16]

*Wikipedia

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