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...basics of the crossword craft to about half a dozen crossword enthusiasts. Mahowald said this year’s Crossword Society public event was much more “low-key” than last year’s tournament, which brought famed New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz and 120 cross-wordsmiths. The key to starting a crossword, Mahowald said, is to create several theme answers that fit symmetrically into the grid. Next, he recommended finding long words that form “fun, interesting answers.” As an example, Mahowald showed the group...
Last Saturday, before Harvard’s first ever Crossword Puzzle Tournament, FM sat down with Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times’ daily crossword, to talk about Rubik’s cubes, the English lexicon, and the word “ucalegon.”1.FM: Are you excited about the tournament today? WS: I am excited about the tournament. If you go back twenty years, crosswords were thought of as an old person thing and most people who created and solved puzzles were basically fifty and older…Now there seem...
...event on Wednesday, the Harvard tournament’s MC—Robert P. Ciofani ’09—told the assembled cruciverbalists that “We are going to show you why our tournament is better than Yale’s by bringing on Will Shortz.” Shortz is the editor of the New York Times’s daily crossword, and Kyle A. Mahowald ’09—the Harvard College Crossword Society’s founder and president—interned with him last summer. “Kyle raised...
...this isn’t idle flattery. Mahowald’s puzzles made such a strong impression on Shortz that he landed an internship more exclusive than any consulting or investment banking job—he was Will Shortz’s only intern...
Although Mahowald has ambitions beyond puzzles, he will still enjoy the festivities that come with his hobby. In March, hundreds of crossword junkies will gather in Stamford, Connecticut for the biggest and oldest crossword tournament in the nation: The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, which was started by Will Shortz thirty years ago. And Mahowald will be one of them...