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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]
Hope is a given name derived from the Middle English hope, ultimately from the Old English word hopian [1] referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope. It was used as a virtue name by the Puritans. [2] Puritans also used Hope as an element in phrase names, such as Hope-for, Hopeful, and Hope-still. [3] The name is ...
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.
Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times and NPR’s “puzzlemaster” for more than three decades, suffered a stroke last month and has spent the last several ...
She created puzzles for many publications after beginning her career in the early 1950s, and holds the record as the oldest contributor to The New York Times crossword puzzle. [3] [4] A 1965 Times puzzle she wrote is credited as the first rebus puzzle, fitting an exclamation point into a single square. [5] She celebrated her 100th birthday in ...
[3] [8] She sold several puzzles in 2013, including her first to The New York Times. [1] [6] [8] In 2017 she cofounded a website offering crossword puzzles created by women and nonbinary people and began editing crosswords. [1] Bennett became an associate puzzle editor for The New York Times in 2020. [4] [1] In 2022 she became the paper's ...
Generally, most American puzzles are 15×15 squares; if another size, they typically have an odd number of rows and columns: e.g., 21×21 for "Sunday-size" puzzles; Games magazine will accept 17×17 puzzles, Simon & Schuster accepts both 17×17 and 19×19 puzzles, and The New York Times requires diagramless puzzles to be 17×17. [90]
Eugene Thomas Maleska (January 6, 1916 – August 3, 1993) was an American crossword puzzle constructor and editor. [1] He edited The New York Times crossword puzzle from 1977 to 1993. Early life and education career