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A game designer is a person who invents games at the conceptual level.[1] Crossword designers are also known as crossword compilers, cruciverbalists, crossword writers, crossword constructors, or crossword setters.[2] [3] The following is a list of notable crossword designers.

Designer Notable work Honors Ref.
Erik Agard crossword puzzle creator for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times ; crossword editor of USA Today [4] [5]
David Astle creates crossword puzzles under the pseudonym DA for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald [6]
Adrian Bell first compiler of The Times crossword [7]
Tracy Bennett edits The New York Times Games products Wordle and Strands [8] [9]
Jacques Bens head of crosswords for L'Express and Lire [10]
Patrick Berry crossword puzzle creator for the The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Harper's Magazine Merl Reagle MEmoRiaL Award [11] [12]
Harold T. Bers crossword creator for The Atlanta Constitution , The Washington Post , and the New York Herald-Tribune; credited with inventing the themed crossword puzzle while working for The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Hall of Fame [13] [14]
Seth Bisen-Hersh contributor for The New York Times crossword [15] [16]
Joyce Cansfield crossword setter for The Times and crossword compiler The Listener . under the pseudonym Machiavelli [17]
Alan Connor crossword editor for The Guardian and sets the Everyman cryptic crossword for The Observer [18] [19]
Nuala Considine crossword compiler for The Irish Times , The Daily Telegraph , The Spectator , Financial Times , Woman's Realm , The Washington Post , and New Scientist [20]
Emily Cox wrote a monthly cryptic crossword with her husband Henry Rathvon for The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal under the pseudonym Hex [21]
Ruth Crisp compiled crosswords for The Guardian under the names Crispa and Vixen [22]
Jonathan Crowther crossword puzzle setter for The Observer with the pseudonym Azed [23] [24] [25]
John Derek Crozier compiler of the cryptic crossword in The Irish Times, with the pseudonym Crosaire [26]
Leonard Dawe crossword compiler for The Daily Telegraph [27]
Colin Dexter crosswords for The Oxford Times [28]
Tom Driberg compiler of a regular, highly risqué cryptic crossword puzzle for Private Eye as Tiresias [29]
Jacques Drillon head of the crossword section of Le Nouvel Observateur [30]
Roy Earle compiler of a cryptic crossword published daily in The Irish Times under the pseudonym Mac An Iarla [31]
Sam Ezersky crossword constructor for the New York Times games department [32]
Joel Fagliano compiler of the Mini Crossword and The New York Times crossword [33]
Margaret Farrar first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times and editor of crossword books Crossword Puzzle Hall of Fame [34] [35]
Jeremiah Farrell contributor to The New York Times crossword [36]
John Finnemore created cryptic crosswords under the pseudonym Emu for The Listener and The Times [37] [23]
Vic Fleming created crosswords for numerous publications and also I Swear puzzles book [38] [39] [40]
Matt Gaffney created crosswords for Billboard, Chicago Tribune , The Daily Beast GAMES magazine, Los Angeles Times , and The New York Times [41] [42]
Mangesh Ghogre created crossword puzzles published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times [43] [44]
Nayanika Mukherjee created crossword puzzles and puzzle events for The Indian Express and The Hindu; designed WordleCup, the first multiplayer Wordle [45] [46] [47]
Sowmya Ramkumar created crossword puzzles and cryptics for Hindustan Times, The Boston Globe and The Hindu [48]
Walter B. Gibson created crossword puzzles for Philadelphia publications [49]
Bernice Gordon created crossword puzzles for the The New York Times and Los Angeles Times [50]
Dave Gorman cryptic crosswords setter for The Independent as Bluth, The Daily Telegraph as Django, and The Guardian as Fed [51]
John Galbraith Graham cryptic crossword compiler for The Guardian under the pseudonym Araucaria [52]
Paul Green created around 300 CommuniCrostics crosswords for the IEEE Communications Magazine [53]
Barbara Hall crosswords puzzles editor for The Sunday Times ; also created and set puzzles for the Daily Mail , The Yorkshire Post , and The Observer [54]
John Halpern cryptic crossword compiler for The Guardian , The Independent , The Times , The Daily Telegraph , and Financial Times [52]
Sarah Hayes crossword and advanced cryptics creator associated with The Daily Telegraph , The Guardian , The Independent, New Statesman, Financial Times, and The Times, using the names Anarche, Aranya, and Rosa [55] [56]
Francis Heaney puzzle writer and editor-at-large for GAMES Magazine [57] [2]
Tyler Hinman crossword contributor to the The New York Times and The Onion [58] [2]
Henry Hook created crosswords and cryptics for Games and was a crossword creator for King Features Syndicate, The New York Times , and The Boston Globe Sunday edition [59]
Helene Hovanec crossword puzzle book writer for children [2]
Margaret Irvine set cryptic crosswords for The Guardian under the pseudonym Nutmeg [60]
Maura Jacobson contributed weekly to The New York Times crossword for 31 years [61]
Daniel Larsen constructed crossword puzzles for The New York Times when he was thirteen years old [62] [63]
Wendy Law set cryptic crosswords for The Guardian and the Financial Times [64]
Frank W. Lewis created weekly crossword for The Nation for fifty years [65]
Wyna Liu crossword creator and editor of The New York Times Connections [66]
Aimee Lucido crossword constructor and editor for The New York Times crossword [5] [67]
William Lutwiniak crossword co-editor of The Washington Post magazine and contributor to the New York Herald Tribune [68]
Derrick Somerset Macnutt crossword contributor to The Observer under the pseudonym Ximenes [69]
Eugene T. Maleska crossword puzzle constructor who edited The New York Times crossword [70]
Don Manley crossword contributor to The Guardian and crossword editor of Church Times, under the pseudonyms Bradman, Duck, Giovanni, and Quixote [71]
Edward Powys Mathers pioneer of the cryptic crossword; created crossword for The Observer as Torquemada [52] [23]
Andrea Carla Michaels contributor for The New York Times crossword [72]
Jeremy Morse writer of cryptic crossword clues for The Observer and word puzzles for Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics [73] [74]
Stanley Newman editor of the Newsday crossword puzzle [75] [2]
Manny Nosowsky crossword contributor to The New York Times , the Wall Street Journal [76]
Juan Ostoic wrote crossword puzzles for La Tercera using the pseudonym Jota O [77]
Trip Payne crossword contributing editor to Games World of Puzzles [78]
Georges Perec created crossword-puzzles for Le Point [79]
John Pidgeon crossword compiler for the The Daily Telegraph under the pseudonym Petitjean [80]
Brendan Emmett Quigley created crossword for The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , and The Boston Globe [81] [2]
A. N. Prahlada Rao Kannada-language crossword compiler [82]
Henry Rathvon wrote a monthly cryptic crossword with his wife Emily Cox for The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal under the pseudonym Hex [21]
Merl Reagle crossword constructor for the San Francisco Chronicle; syndicated in more than fifty papers [83]
Alistair Ferguson Ritchie crossword compiler for in The Sketch and The Listener, under the pseudonym Afrit [52]
Anna Shechtman constructs crossword puzzles for The New Yorker and The New York Times [84]
Mike Shenk crosswood puzzle editor of The Wall Street Journal [85]
Will Shortz puzzle designer for The New York Times crossword Sam Loyd Award [86] [87] [58]
Evelyn E. Smith crossword compiler [88]
Bob Smithies compiler of cryptic crossword for The Guardian under the pseudonym Bunthorne [89]
Stephen Sondheim credited with introducing British cryptic crosswords to the US through a series he created for New York magazine, later consolidated as Stephen Sondheim's Crossword Puzzles [90] [65]
Roger Squires recognised by Guinness World Records as "The World's Most Prolific Crossword Compiler"; crossword editor at the Birmingham Post; and crossword compiler for The Daily Telegraph , The Times, The Guardian , The Sun, and The Financial Times , using the pseudonyms Bower, Dante, Hodge, Icarus, and Rufus [24] [91]
David Steinberg editor of the Universal Crossword, a daily puzzle published by Andrews McMeel Syndication; former crossword constructor for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times [92] [2]
Benjamin Tatar created crossword puzzles for Dell Publishing [93]
Jan Buckner Walker creator of the Tribune Media Services' Kids Across Parents Down family crossword [94]
Will Weng crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times [35]
Arthur Wynne Invented the modern crossword puzzle while working for the New York World Crossword Puzzle Hall of Fame [95] [57]

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