VI. Read 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 (51) ___________ switched to dropped, and the name became (52) ___________.
Wynne based his crossword puzzle (53) ___________ a similar but much older game played in ancient Pompeii that translated (54) ___________ Latin to English was called Magic Squares. In Magic Squares, the player is given a group of words and has to (55) ___________ them on a grid so that the words read the same way across and down.
A crossword puzzle is very similar, except (56) ___________ 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 (57) ___________ and vertical shaped puzzles; and Wynne (58) ___________ the use of adding blank black squares to a crossword puzzle.
The crossword puzzle in a British publication (59) ___________ published in Pearson’s Magazine in February 1922. The (60) ___________ New York Times crossword was published on February 1, 1930.
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