2010: Rubicon(TV show): Episode 1: Will Travers, an intelligence analyst at the American Policy Institute (API), spots related crossword puzzle [.pdf; Java] answers in multiple newspapers involving the government, suicides, conspiracies, ...
A Way With Words(song) (video; 5:49) by Amanda Yesnowitz and Brian Cimmet at ACPT 2010: article & lyrics: "I love words. I love words. I love glorious, uproarious, notorious words
Wouldn’t that be natural for someone like me -- A dame whose name goes literally from A to Z."
Crossword (jazz) by Crossover Jazz Trio & Tino Tracanna, album 3 Words; MayasMix @ 03:20
Crossword(movie): "On a significant day in her life, a lonely woman who finds solace in the daily crossword finds that the answers to the clues are all around her. Is it magic, coincidence or something else entirely?"
Puzzled by People(song) (video; 3:10) by The Streets, album Computers and Blues; MayasMix @ 07:45; lyrics: "I'm pretty good at puzzles but puzzled by people / Sometimes you never find the answer
We never had a crossword (crossed word) / My words got lost and you never heard
I'm 2 (too) down you're one across the room / Beginning with I and ending in U"
Mrs Parker & the Vicious Crossword(movie); "Mrs Parker was told by her beau that by solving a crossword, which he compiled, she'd know his true feelings. One hitch - she's stuck on the last clue, and God isn't helping."
King Of The Crosswords(song) (video; 2:57) by David Mead, album Dudes; lyrics: "Give him that pen and the New York Times / And his hands would start movin' in a blur
Even without a dictionary he'd be done in five / He's the king of the crosswords"
Crossword Puzzle Stirs Controversy in VenezuelaNeptalí Segovia, a veteran crossword writer, is accused of hiding a coded message urging the death of President Hugo Chavez’s brother; 5/11/2012
2013: 100th anniversary of Arthur Wynne's "word-cross"; expect commemorative puzzles later this year
The Being Experience(movie); official site; illuminates the mysteries of the internal world by taking unruly excursions into the recesses of the mind. Will Shortz is in the interesting cast, but are crosswords or puzzles involved...?
2011: CROSSWORDS and YOU (this course) first offered; Ashland and Medford [Spring];
2013: 100th anniversary of Arthur Wynne's "word-cross"; expect commemorative puzzles later this year