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Box office. $3,121,270 [1] Wordplay is a 2006 documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon. It features Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, crossword constructor Merl Reagle, and many other noted crossword solvers and constructors. The second half of the movie is set at the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament ...
New York Times puzzle editor (since 1993), NPR 's Weekend Edition Sunday puzzlemaster (since 1987) William F. Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword editor for The New York Times. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in the invented field of enigmatology.
Occupations. Puzzle editor. crossword constructor. Years active. 2012–present. Known for. Editor of The New York Times Spelling Bee. Sam Ezersky (born May 29, 1995) is an American puzzle editor and crossword constructor who is the editor of The New York Times Spelling Bee. He has worked for the New York Times games department since 2017.
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times and NPR’s “puzzlemaster” for more than three decades, had a stroke last month and has spent the last several weeks in ...
The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games. [1][2][3][4][5] The puzzle is created by various freelance constructors and has ...
The New York Times’ latest puzzle combines a word search with a crossword. Joining puzzle fans' morning rotations of the crossword, Wordle, and Connections is Strands, the New York Times' latest ...
His first puzzle in The New York Times appeared on January 26, 1947. [10] Bers is credited with 138 New York Times crossword puzzles published between 1947 and 1961, including 71 Sunday puzzles. [11] At the time of death in 1961, he was the fourth-most frequent creator of Times puzzles, trailing only Eugene T. Maleska, Jack Luzzatto, and Thomas ...