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Obituary: Dan Naddor, crossword puzzle maker
Dan Naddor, a real estate broker who coped with cancer diagnosed five years ago by learning to construct crossword puzzles that were regularly published in 200 newspapers across the country, died Dec. 28 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 53.
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Constructors Create Nearly Identical Puzzles
Last month, I published a crossword on my Web site with a spooky theme—phrases with the word RAVEN embedded inside. The five theme entries: BRAVE NEW WORLD, INTRAVENOUS DRIP, CONTRAVENE, COBRA VENOM, and VENTNOR AVENUE (that’s the Monopoly property). I felt pleased with my Edgar Allan Poe tribute—a clever theme well-executed.
I soon learned that I wasn’t as clever as I thought. Over the next couple of days, I started getting e-mails from solvers telling me that my theme had been done before.
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Teen Gets Crossword Published in N.Y. Times
He’s just 14 years old and Ben Pall just got a big break. His crossword puzzle was published in Monday’s New York Times.
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New York Sun, Crosswords Returning
Seth Lipsky is ever-so-slowly resurrecting The New York Sun as a stripped-down, online-only version of the newspaper he ran between 2002 and 2008. “We plan to build it up,” he told me yesterday, referring to nysun.com.
His most-recent addition to the site is a 20-week run of crosswords by the Sun’s highly acclaimed, former puzzle editor, Peter Gordon. It’s a batch of crosswords that were left unpublished when the Sun folded more than a year ago, and cruciverbalists will have to shell out $20 for the puzzles.