Word-Cross to Cross-Word to Crossword

Did you know that the crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond shaped? The name later switched to cross-word and then crossword.

According to Interfax News Agency, the world's largest crossword puzzle comprising of more than 64 thousand words was made by hand by a Russian family couple living in the town of Borisoglebsk, Southern Russia. The crossword contains 64,371 words, roughly 10,000 words more than in a crossword by Roger Boucart, a Belgian man who held the previous word record for the largest crossword.