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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.
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]
In addition to the primary crossword, the Times publishes a second Sunday puzzle each week, of varying types, something that the first crossword editor, Margaret Farrar, saw as a part of the paper's Sunday puzzle offering from the start; she wrote in a memo when the Times was considering whether or not to start running crosswords that "The ...
Here’s what recent research is saying about the diet’s benefits: Protects against the risk of cardiovascular disease, especially in women. One study of nearly 26,000 U.S. women found up to a ...
A new study finds that the more people followed environmentally sustainable diets that emphasized nutrients from plants, the lower their risk of death from cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's ...
A metapuzzle is a puzzle that unites several puzzles that feed into it. For example, five puzzles that had the answers BLACK, HAMMER, FROST, KNIFE, and UNION would lead to the metapuzzle answer JACK, which combines with all of those words to make new words and phrases. A "meta-meta" can exist in larger sets of puzzles, uniting several metapuzzles.
Comments from Today’s Crossword Constructors. Geoffrey: This puzzle was inspired by my morning ritual in which I perform the latter two verbs of this puzzle's theme. Chemex with paper filter ...
Arthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871, in Liverpool, England, and lived on Edge Lane for a time. His father was the editor of the local newspaper, the Liverpool Mercury. [ 1] He emigrated to the United States on June 6, 1891, at the age of 19, [ 2] settling for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [dead link][ 3]