| Interesting Crossword Puzzle Facts - More than 50 million people in USA play crosswords regularly.
- Crosswords generally have an odd number of squares on a side, in order to have a single square in the middle, for symmetry.
- The largest ever crossword contained 64,371 words, in Russian, in 2004.
- Most common answer: era
- Most common four-letter word: area
- Most common five-letter word: erase
- The first crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World in 1913. The New York Times started its crossword in 1942. The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament started in 1978.
Source: Wordplay: The Official Companion Book.
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