Acrostic (puzzle)

The second part is a long series of numbered blanks and spaces, representing a quotation or other text, into which the answers for the clues fit.

Later Saturday Review constructors were Doris Nash Wortman, Thomas Middleton, and Barry Tunick.

A similar puzzle, called a Trans-O-Gram, by Svend Petersen, and later, Kem Putney, appeared in National Review from 1963 to 1993.

Charles Duerr, who died in 1999, authored many "Dur-acrostic" books and was a contributor of acrostics to the Saturday Review.

Writer and academic Isaac Asimov enjoyed acrostics, comparing them favorably to crossword puzzles.

An acrostic puzzle published in State Magazine in 1986
In this primal acrostic the words are pictured instead of described. When the seven objects have been rightly guessed and written one below another, the initial letters will spell the surname of a famous man. (published in St. Nicholas Magazine (1873)