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How the New York Times Makes the Super Mega Crossword
By Deb Amlen Deb Amlen is one of the writers of the Wordplay crossword column. Any puzzle maker will tell you that building a crossword is no easy task ... and Will Shortz, the lead puzzle ...
Puzzle master Will Shortz pieces together his recovery from a stroke
By April, Shortz was facing an important event, one he hadn’t missed since he founded it in 1978: the annual American ...
What Do Crossword Puzzles Really Test?
As she writes in her new book, The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist Legacy of the Crossword ... Shortz and his ...
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Editor’s Note: Guess who’s back, back again
Shortz is back, tell a friend ... that Will has now recovered enough to resume editing the Times Crossword, beginning with the puzzle on Dec. 30. Will’s stroke affected the right side of ...
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From puzzles to paddles: Crossword editor Will Shortz moonlights as ping-pong impresario
PLEASANTVILLE, NEW YORK -- Will Shortz is a puzzle master by day and a table-tennis fanatic by night. He has been the New York Times crossword editor and NPR's puzzle master for over three decades.