I. Rend the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the blanks.arrangeinventedlaterfirstoninsteadfromwascrosswordhorizontal Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name (1) _____________ switched to cross-word, and then as a result of an accidental typo the hyphen was dropped, and the name became (2) _____________. Wynne based his crossword puzzle (3)_____________ a similar but much older game...
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I. Rend the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the blanks.
arrange | invented | later | first | on |
instead | from | was | crossword | horizontal |
Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name (1) _____________ switched to cross-word, and then as a result of an accidental typo the hyphen was dropped, and the name became (2) _____________.
Wynne based his crossword puzzle (3)_____________ a similar but much older game played in ancient Pompeii that translated (4) _____________Latin to English was called Magic Squares. In Magic Squares, the player is given a group of words and has to (5)_____________ them on a grid so that the words read the same way across and down.
A crossword puzzle is very similar, except (6) _____________ of being given the words the player is given clues.
Arthur Wynne added other innovations to the crossword puzzle. While the first puzzle was diamond-shaped, he later invented (7) _____________and vertical shaped puzzles; and Wynne (8)_____________ the use of adding blank black squares to a crossword puzzle.
The crossword puzzle in a British publication (9)_____________published in Pearson's Magazine in February 1922. The (10) _____________New York Times crossword was published on February 1, 1930.
1 legally
2 about
3 real
4 are
5 there
6 at
7 the
8 sticking