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IV. Rend the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the blanks.
arrange invented later first On
instead from crossword horizontal
Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name (1) ________ switched to a 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.
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