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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]
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
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]
First Appearance Conan the Barbarian: 1932 (December) Robert E. Howard "The Phoenix on the Sword" Weird Tales: The Man of Bronze (Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. 1933 (March) Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) The Man of Bronze: Moon Man (Stephen Thatcher) 1933 (June) Frederick C. Davis Ten Detective Aces: Domino Lady (Ellen Patrick) 1936 (May) Lars Anderson
He is described as being involved in gambling, extortion, drug dealing and other crimes in the Northwest before his first appearance in the series. He first appears during Blackie's attempt to wrest control of One Eyed Jack's from owner Benjamin Horne. He reportedly once sold insurance for the brothel to Horne and is also the lover of Blackie's ...
A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers. [1] Instead, each clue consists of a sentence from which a string of letters has been removed and, where necessary, the punctuation and word breaks in the clue rearranged to form a new more-or-less grammatical ...
Practising writing clues from early in the morning until midnight, seven days a week, Halpern forgot about his degree. He’d read it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert – so chose to do 20,000 hours. An entire crossword would be written, and the best clue only chosen to go in its replacement puzzle – the others would be discarded.
Azed is a crossword which appears every Sunday in The Observer newspaper. Since it first appeared in March 1972, every puzzle has been composed by Jonathan Crowther who also judges the monthly clue-writing competition. [1] The pseudonym Azed is a reversal of (Fray Diego de) Deza, a Spanish inquisitor general.