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unusual facts about crossword



American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

The 2006 documentary Wordplay, directed by Patrick Creadon, focuses on Will Shortz and the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

Araucaria

Araucaria is the pseudonym of the crossword compiler John Galbraith Graham (1921–2013).

Chambers Dictionary

TCD is widely used by British crossword solvers and setters, and by Scrabble players (though it is no longer the official Scrabble dictionary).

Deb Amlen

She is on the team that constructs the American Values Club crossword (formerly The Onion A.V. Club crossword), edited by Ben Tausig, and is the "X Games" columnist for BUST Magazine.

Eugene Thomas Maleska

In 1993, Maleska was succeeded by Will Shortz, who remains New York Times crossword editor to this day.

Few Things Left Unsaid

The book was launched in Juhu Crossword book store on 13 July 2011 by Cabinet Minister Suresh Shetty.

Frank Lewis

Frank W. Lewis (1912–2010), cryptographer and crossword compiler

Houghton, Cambridgeshire

John Galbraith Graham, crossword compiler and former minister at St Mary's Church, Houghton

Howard Garns

However, Will Shortz, a crossword compiler for the New York Times, discovered that Garns's name appeared in the list of contributors at the front of the magazine whenever Number Place appeared, and was absent from all other editions.

Jeremiah Farrell

He is best known for designing many crossword puzzles for The New York Times, starting in the 1970s for Margaret Farrar, and then continuing to design new puzzles after the department was taken over by Will Shortz.

He is well known for having designed Will Shortz's favorite puzzle, the 1996 "Election Day" crossword in The New York Times.

Judd Hambrick

An avid crossword puzzle expert, Hambrick also authored a series of books based on the board game Scrabble, titled Scrabble Brand Grams.

Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India

Some Indian newspapers also commented on the fact that Looking East to Look West beat a book by Gurcharan Das which was also short-listed for the Vodafone Crossword non-fiction award.

Margaret Farrar

Stanley Newman has referred to her as a "crossword genius", and credits her with the creation of "many, if not most" of the rules that guide modern crossword design.

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

Aside from these factors, Sheila is enlisted in swimming lessons (to her chagrin) and partakes at the camp newspaper staff (ending with resignation after having forgotten to devise a reward for the winners of her camp crossword puzzle), even painting the backdrop of the camp's production of Peter Pan (in which Libby plays Captain Hook, to her misery).

Playfair cipher

Advanced thematic cryptic crosswords like The Listener Crossword (published in the Saturday edition of The Times (UK) newspaper) occasionally incorporate Playfair ciphers.

Stretcher Case Baby

Copies were initially given away at the band's London Marquee Club first anniversary concerts, but when these were cut short further copies were given to fan club members, and 250 were given as crossword prizes with the New Musical Express.

Tyler Hinman

While a 9th grade student at The American School In England (TASIS), Hinman was introduced to The New York Times crossword puzzle and became immediately interested.

Universal Press Syndicate

Along with editorial cartoonists Ben Sargent, Pat Oliphant, Tom Toles, Glenn McCoy, Ted Rall and Don "Bad Reporter" Asmussen, UPS syndicates crossword puzzles and games edited by Timothy Parker.

Universal Uclick

Universal Uclick products include crossword puzzles and games edited by Timothy Parker and Pat Sajak, number placement puzzles like Sudoku and Kakuro, jigsaw puzzles and other casual games.


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