The spectacular life of the world’s most powerful crossword editor
14 mins | Jul 24, 2021
Will Shortz's experience at The New York Times spans 30 years. He has appeared on The Simpsons, written riddles for a Batman villain and sold over one million copies of a sudoku book. J. Oliver Conroy talks to the meticulously chaotic puzzle King, and they discuss his most notorious clues, his passion for table tennis, and why for some of us, puzzles are like drugs.
From The Guardian