She illustrates this idea with the metaphor of the crossword puzzle. He changed the reference to a crossword puzzle. This was followed by Katherine McMahon, the first woman to solve the crossword puzzle. The title for the world's first crossword puzzle is disputed. He stays and works on his crossword puzzle from his daily newspaper. The video takes place in a white room with crossword puzzle designs on the wall. It looked like a crossword puzzle but it had numbers. He is also fond of "The New York Times" crossword puzzle. It was also the first in Britain to have a crossword puzzle. In 1978 Shortz founded and still directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. The magazine features the Sunday version of the crossword puzzle along with other puzzles. Usually, a second puzzle is included with the crossword puzzle. The game is a mix of Boggle and a crossword puzzle. He left when he became the editor of "The New York Times" crossword puzzle. Consider a partially completed, possibly garbled crossword puzzle.