Sneaking an acrostic into a pro forma letter isn’t new either. Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2009 veto message, believed to be directed at an assemblyman with whom he’d sparred.

Constructor Notes This acrostic celebrates a place of extremes — Antarctica — and a woman who has swum in a variety of extreme environments. In 1987, Lynne Cox became a symbol of thawing Cold ...

ACROSTIC — Today’s acrostic puzzle was constructed by the original Wordplay writer, Jim Horne, who also founded XWord Info. (The Wordplay column arose from that site, in fact.) ...

Jim Horne’s acrostic is like hitting the lottery. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Once in a while I encounter a design that works so well on a printed page that I think to myself, “What a ...

David Balton and Jane Stewart provide an endearing, confessional puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Solving this puzzle made me very nostalgic. It’s a passage by David Sedaris, a writer ...