By April, Shortz was facing an important event, one he hadn’t missed since he founded it in 1978: the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He left the subacute rehabilitation facility ...

and a white leather couch draped with a crossword-print throw. “Really brings tears to my eyes to think about it.” Shortz has been the puzzle editor at the Times since 1993, when he was ...

Meanwhile, can we appreciate how good the title “Tossing and Turning” is? That one’s also all Rebecca, cracked at the last ...

NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz has appeared on Weekend Edition ... and the founder and director of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (since 1978). Will sold his first puzzle professionally ...

By April, Shortz was facing an important event, one he hadn’t missed since he founded it in 1978: the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He left the subacute rehabilitation facility, went ...

(The Times runs an annual Diverse Crossword Constructor Fellowship to try to address this.) When Shortz started out, he was the Times’ sole full-time puzzle employee; now, there are roughly 100.