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A Picture WITH Words by Chloe PrestonA studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords
The Crossword Craze / 1920A dashing couple display the growing crossword craze with their checked attire and similarly squared-off small dog!
Doing the Crossword / 1925The thinker, ponders a crossword clue
The Last Word by William Heath RobinsonA motorcyclist, engrossed in a crossword, fails to notice that he is driving over the edge of a cliff just as he discovers the right answer to one of the clues
Crossword by LamplightThree children do a crossword by lamp light
Caricature illustration of man smoking, struggling with crossword under lamp, with Russian-English dictionary. Captioned, Cross Purposes'
Newspaper, L Action Francaise - to understand events Date: 1938
Crossword puzzle on a birthday card - solved. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Frederick AlexanderDR. FREDERICK WILLIAM ALEXANDER, OBE. Depicted making anagrams & crossword puzzles in Braille for the blind, with the aid of an ordinary washing mangle
Man and two children doing the crossword on a train. Date: circa 1960s
Crossword Craze - Distracted housemaidThe Crossword Craze What Lizzie was late with the lunch! A housemaid gets totally distracted trying to finish her crossword and completely forgets to do her cleaning or prepare the midday meal
Travelling gipsy family inside their new homeA travelling gipsy family inside the bungalow where they have been rehoused, in Beare Green, Surrey. The girl nearest the camera is writing in a notebook
John Bull gets crossword feverThe mid-1920s crossword craze brings John Bull out in crossword fever as an epidemic of crossword puzzles hook the nation
And Never a Cross Word by Howard K. ElcockA nonchalant young woman in crossword themed pyjamas leaves a hotel bathroom. She smokes a cigarette and swans off oblivious to the waiting queue of other hotel guests who have obviously been there
The Next Infliction - the Cross-Word Puzzle Illustrated by WHeath Robinsons contribution to the crossword craze of 1925, an illustrated crossword puzzle with clues included under the picture
Worthington Crosswords advertisementAn advertisement for Worthington Ales at the time of the craze for crosswords showing an engrossed crossword puzzler bumping into people and causing chaos in his wake as he walks along
Squaring the Dance Circles by Reginald HigginsA stylish 1920s couple are distracted from their dancing by an engrossing crossword puzzle, all the rage in 1925. The caption reads, " A word of five letters, beginning with C
Crossword Fever in USACrossword Puzzle Fever hits America - a proposal to erect huge crosswords at railway crossings to entertain travellers waiting for the train to pass