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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]
Jacobson had prior experience with trivia, winning $3,150 on three episodes of the game show Jeopardy!, on shows that aired a few weeks after the show debuted in 1964.She tried her hand at creating crossword puzzles, submitting some samples to Margaret Farrar, the first crossword puzzle editor at The New York Times, who rejected her offerings but offered some constructive suggestions for ...
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
Molly Morganthau Babbits is an amateur detective who picks up clues in her job as switchboard operator (The Girl at Central, 1915) and subsequently occasionally works as an undercover private eye for a team of lawyers in books by Geraldine Bonner. Kate Baeier is a journalist and private investigator in London in a series by Gillian Slovo begun ...
The United States Women's National Team has had several athletes become icons since the 1990s. Most recently, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe have joined the likes of Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach as ...
The clues and puzzles used throughout the run were written by veteran crossword puzzle maker Timothy Parker, who also writes the USA Today crossword and was hand-picked by Griffin. Crosswords was sold to approximately 100+ markets and aired during the 2007-2008 season, usually placed in mid-morning or early afternoon slots.
Matt Gaffney is a professional crossword puzzle constructor and author [1] who lives in Staunton, Virginia.His puzzles have appeared in Billboard magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Beast, [2] Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, GAMES magazine, the Los Angeles Times, [3] New York magazine, the New York Times, [3] Newsday, The Onion, Slate magazine, [4] the Wall Street Journal, [3] the ...
Cher’s new memoir has been seven long years in the making. “It was really, really difficult,” the entertainer told Yahoo Entertainment about the book project she began in 2017, “and ...