Hiding an acrostic message in an otherwise ordinary resignation letter isn’t exactly the boldest way to express a political view, yet it’s proven surprisingly effective. It’s a trick that’s been tried ...

Shakira has launched her new single ‘Acróstico’ (acrostic) by appearing in a video clip with her children Milan and Sasha while they played the piano. In a matter of hours, the song reached three ...

An undergraduate at Tufts University discovered a previously unnoticed acrostic in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Per a new paper published in the journal Milton Quarterly, 2018 graduate Miranda Phaal ...

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 whom I ...

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...

Last Sunday, a disconcerting—puzzling, even--mystery: the New York Times acrostic was nowhere to be found in the weekly magazine. One of the "variety puzzles" which for years have run underneath the ...