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There's got to be a clever pun about crossovers here somewhere. WillShortz, The New York Times crosswords editor who recently promised to donate his 20,000 puzzle books to Indiana University, will be appearing in this week's episode of The Simpsons (along with prolific puzzle maker Merl Reagle , according to The Hartford Courant 's Frank Rizzo) in an episode that focuses on Lisa Simpson...
There's got to be a clever pun about crossovers here somewhere. WillShortz, The New York Times crosswords editor who recently promised to donate his 20,000 puzzle books to Indiana University, will be appearing in this week's episode of The Simpsons (along with prolific puzzle maker Merl Reagle , according to The Hartford Courant 's Frank Rizzo) in an episode that focuses on Lisa Simpson...
Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier WillShortz 's home library boasts thousands of puzzle books and magazines going back to 1543. "I have told IU that it's my intention to give my collection to the Lilly Library " at Indiana University as a bequest, he says.
On Sunday, in the sixth episode of its 20th (!) season, The Simpsons went crossword crazy in a cross-promotion with The New York Times and the Hartford Courant . The episode featured the voices of renowned crossword creators Merl Reagle (whose puzzles appear in the Courant and elsewhere) and WillShortz, puzzle master of the Times . The crossword in Sunday's Times featured a special message...
There’s nothing to make a fast-aging lexicographer feel older than to ponder the words that go drifting away from the crossword-puzzle dictionaries year after year. On the November 16 episode of The Simpsons , crossword maven WillShortz , star of that wonderful logophilic documentary Word Play , appeared. Reports David Kelly , writing for the always illuminating New York Times books...
Further to the previous post , it appears that the Simpsons are hard at work defending the English language, not just by getting new words inserted into the dictionary, but by highlighting words that have been unceremoniously removed. Over at the Paper Cuts blog , David Kelly points to Sunday night’s episode, which tipped its hat to words that seem to be dropping out of the lexicon: WillShortz,...
... episode and were mentioned in it. Frickin’ amazing. Also, New York Times crossword puzzle editor WillShortz and the creator of yesterday’s puzzle, Merl Reagle, both appeared in the episode. Here’s how it all came about. More here .
... get up in arms, though, the puzzle was created by Merl Reagle and overseen by genre legend WillShortz."It's still done by the people who do the puzzles," Jean promises. "All we wanted was to have this message from Homer to Lisa in the puzzle, which is there. Then they wrote a puzzle around that. What they said was that they weren't going to promote it as a Simpsons thing, but they'd...
What has several million letters and spells big news for Indiana University? It's the collection of puzzles amassed by WillShortz, the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times and the puzzlemaster on National Public Radio's "Sunday Puzzle." Shortz, a 1974 IU graduate, intends to bequeath the school his more than 20,000 puzzle books and magazines.
Crossword puzzle designer Merl Reagle crosses over to Springfield, as an animated version of himself makes a cameo appearance on . A fan of the show, Reagle works as a full-time puzzle creator for newspapers across the nation. Along with New York Times crossword editor WillShortz's yellow-skinned counterpart, Reagle's Simpson-ized character will be featured in the new episode, “Homer...
Absolutely incredible. WillShortz was born and raised on an Arabian horse farm in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Graduating from Indiana University in 1974[1], he is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology,[2] the study of puzzles, after designing his own degree program. He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of [...]
What has several million letters and spells big news for Indiana University? It's the collection of puzzles amassed by WillShortz, the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times and the puzzlemaster on National Public Radio's "Sunday Puzzle."
Two great tastes that taste great together: WillShortz and The Simpsons . The New York Times crossword editor will be appearing on the cartoon this Sunday, and that same day, The New York Times will feature a Simpsons -themed puzzle
