Arthur Wynne

Arthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871, in Liverpool, England, and lived on Edge Lane for a time.

[5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World.

For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, with the letters F-U-N already being filled in.

"[6] Although Wynne's invention was based on earlier puzzle forms, such as the word diamond, he introduced a number of innovations (e.g. the use of horizontal and vertical lines to create boxes for solvers to enter letters).

He subsequently pioneered the use of black squares in a symmetrical arrangement to separate words in rows and columns.