It’s off to the races with today’s Mel Taub puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger PUNS AND ANAGRAMS — It’s nice to see Mel Taub in this space again, for the first time in over a year! We’ve had some fun “Pandas ...

Mel Taub, the longtime creator of the Puns and Anagrams puzzle for The New York Times -- a form that involved wordplay and ...

Anagrams are words or phrases made by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases. Their origin goes right back to the dawn of recorded history. Initially, they were perceived as harboring ...

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 ...

He was the main whiz behind a crossword variation for The Times, whose readers delighted in his anagrams and sometimes ...