![]() She is an avid reader and loves to listen to podcasts. She is learning to play guitar and makes up her own song parodies and performs them for friends and family. ![]() You better believe that she is going to use a music reference whenever possible in her puzzling career. Music trivia is her JAM (see what I mean about the puns?), and she is well VERSED (see, did it again!) in popular music of a lot of different genres from the 70s thru the 90s and early 00s, but not so much the late 00s because the kids today just don’t know anything about real music. She’s a scientist by profession with a great sense of humor and a love of puns, wordplay, and memes. Meconya has always had a lifelong curiosity to know the hows and whys of EVERYTHING, which would explain her newly found passion for crossword puzzle construction. Zaineb started solving crossword puzzles in 2020, she fell in love with them and started making her own - the Crossword Puzzle Collaboration Directory and Crossweird were a great help. #147: *thud from another room* | (with Barbara Lin) Meet the Constructors! Zaineb Akbar (she/her) When she’s not busy editing, making puzzles, or editing puzzles, she likes to get out and about with her daughters, watch old movies with her husband, and take long walks around Oakland. ![]() ![]() Her crosswords appear every Tuesday in Vox and have also been published by AVCX, the New York Times, Crosswords Club, and Marie Claire. She is thrilled to be an Inkubator alumna for many reasons, but particularly because she enjoys supporting new constructors. Juliana is a crossword editor/constructor and mom in Oakland, California. Inkubator Alumnae Juliana Tringali Golden (she/her) When she’s not doing design-things, she can often be found plant-moming, cooking, or teaching STEAM workshops to young kiddos over Zoom. She has had a hodge podge of design experience so far, from product development to UI design to brand storytelling. Although she’s dabbled in some construction, Alex considers herself very much a crossword-novice and secretly marvels over all the clever puzzles she gets to lay out each week. Not only does it run in the paper seven days a week with varying degrees of complexity, but you can also complete NYT Crossword puzzles online, and there’s even a video game adaptation of it for the Nintendo DS.Īs for the crossword puzzles being “sinful”… we’ll give you a clue.Is The Inkubator’s designer, a scrappy creative based in NYC. Today, the crossword has moved far beyond its primitive origins. Fun fact: He’s the only “academically accredited puzzle master” in the world, holding a degree he designed himself in “enigmatology.” It’s such a specialized degree, there’s not even an entry for it on, but it stems from the word enigma. Shortz has gained widespread notoriety since that time, taking the puzzle to higher and higher heights over the years. Will Weng and Eugene Maleska followed in her footsteps before Will Shortz took the coveted reins in 1993. Since that time, there have only been four editors of the NYT Crossword puzzle, beginning with Margaret Farrar, who served as editor from the publication of the first puzzle until 1969. By 1950, the paper began running a crossword puzzle daily. The first puzzle ran Sunday, February 15, 1942, and it was, in fact, a primitive pursuit, (’s first definition for the adjective: “Being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence”), as they were the first major US paper to run a crossword puzzle. So, what absolved the crossword puzzle in the illustrious publication’s mind and made them eat their words? Reportedly, it was after the bombing of Pearl Harbor that Lester Markel, the paper’s Sunday editor at the time, decided the country could use some levity, primitive or not. In 1924, the paper ran an opinion column that dubbed them “ a primitive sort of mental exercise.” (Here, we’re inferring they meant primitive as in “simple unsophisticated”-’s ninth entry for the adjective) and a “sinful waste.” Harsh! When crossword puzzles first came about in the 1920s, the NYT turned up its nose at them. There are plenty of crossword puzzles in publications across the country, but when we think of the pinnacle of puzzledom (Not officially a word, but, perhaps, it should be?), the purveyors of the most preeminent puzzles, we bow to The New York Times (NYT).įor more than 75 years, the NYT crossword puzzle has been stumping readers with its clever clues and then sending them soaring when they finally fill in all the squares.
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