A witty guest star joins Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon and asks, “What’s so funny?” By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — The acrostic puzzle, nee “Double-Crostic,” has appeared regularly in The New York Times ...

As is well known, anagrams are ancient. Today, we see them as an interesting genre of wordplay. But they were hardly perceived as such in the past, and to an extent even today. Anagrams of people’s ...