The Greek letters that spell out “ichthus” are: iota, chi, theta, upsilon and sigma. These letters form an acrostic of the following phrase: Iesous Christos, Theou Uios, Soter.

Last Sunday, a disconcerting—puzzling, even--mystery: the New York Times acrostic was nowhere to be found in the weekly magazine.

ACROSTIC — Once in a while I encounter a design that works so well on a printed page that I think to myself, “What a shame, this whole internet era!” This is one of those cases. There was a ...

Some early Christians made the Greek word for fish, ichthus, into an acronym for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior." (See "The Original Christian Bumper Sticker" by Collin Hansen.) ...

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 ...