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When Did The Omnipotent Crossword Clue First Appear?

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2026-02-08 10:34:24

so that's the obvious starting line for any search into early clue usage. From that point onward, newspapers and magazines across the English-speaking world were churning out crosswords, and religious or deity-related words — things like 'god', 'almighty', or 'omnipotent' — were natural fodder for straightforward definition clues. Pinpointing the literal first instance of the word 'omnipotent' used as a crossword clue, though, feels a bit like trying to spot a single tree in a forest photographed a hundred years ago: the record is diffuse and many early puzzles weren't preserved in searchable digital archives.

When I sift through what is preserved and cataloged, I see that by the 1920s and 1930s crossword setters were already comfortable using high-register synonyms and theological adjectives in their clues. Newspapers varied in style — some favored terse definitions, others leaned into playful or cryptic wordplay — so 'omnipotent' could appear simply to clue 'almighty' or 'god', or it might show up in a cryptic grid where the surface read more like a literary flourish. Because a lot of local and regional papers printed puzzles that never made it into national archives, it's entirely plausible that a small-town paper used 'omnipotent' in a puzzle decades ago and that instance quietly predates the better-documented examples. That scarcity of a single authoritative archive is the main reason nobody can confidently stamp a precise date on the very first usage.

What interests me more than the exact date is how setters use that kind of clue. In American-style puzzles you'll often see 'omnipotent' cluing short, blunt entries like 'GOD' or 'ALL-POWERFUL' trimmed to fit the grid; in British cryptics, the same definition can be part of a clever construction where synonyms and charades are combined. Over time, setters have also become more mindful of tone and audience: some modern venues shy away from overly religious answers when a more neutral synonym will do, while others treat such clues as unremarkable lexical choices. There's also the playful, meta kind of clueing where 'omnipotent' might be used ironically to point to a long, multiword phrase or to be part of a pun that subverts the expected deity answer.

So, to put it together — the first crossword ever was 1913, and 'omnipotent' as a clue almost certainly appeared not long after within the flowering of early 20th-century puzzles, but giving a single year or a single issue for the very first instance isn't something the surviving record reliably allows. I love that ambiguity; it makes the history feel lived-in and communal rather than tidy, and it reminds me that puzzles are made by people dropping words into grids across decades. Feels kind of magical in its own right.

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