![]() ![]() Hell, this year, I purposely lassoed him and pulled him aside so fans could grab photos with him before the tournament started AND still managed to work in a joke or two about the Crossword Mysteries movie.īut, man, there’s putting over your own product, and then there’s just stepping in it. I’ve interviewed him, and chatted with him at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament on more than one occasion. “I don’t think any other puzzle in the country goes through such rigorous editing and testing before publication.” When discussing the editorial process for each Times-approved crossword, Shortz stated: He also namedrops his table tennis club ( always table tennis, never ping-pong), and gives a well-deserved shout-out to as a world-class database of NYT crossword data.īut there’s one line in particular from the interview that stood out to me, and I suspect it stood out to other puzzlers as well. Will talks about going through submissions, editing and polishing crosswords, working on clues, interacting with his assistants, and takes us into his workplace itself, including his reliance on book sources over Internet verification. (And, sadly, thoroughly debunks the glamorous crime-solving editorial life Lacey Chabert portrayed in A Puzzle to Die For earlier this year.) It provides an interesting snapshot of a job most people know very little about. Last week, Lifehacker posted the latest edition of their How I Work series, which takes readers behind the scenes and into the workspaces of all sorts of experts, scientists, creators, and pop culture icons to see how they do what they do.Īnd New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz stepped into the spotlight to share his average workday and what his job is really like. ![]()
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