How I Crossed Crosswords

David Ding
13 min readJan 1, 2024

It started on a bus ride.

On a crisp Monday morning some thirteen years ago, as I embarked upon another journey to school, I routinely picked up the local newspaper by the bus stand. While most people, especially those of the working class, peruse the daily headlines according to their interests, I usually skip past and dive straight into the puzzles section. Attending a STEM-oriented program back then, Sudokus were a…

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David Ding

Senior Software Engineer @MathWorks. #Crossword constructor and loves writing blogs. Into #MagicTheGathering and #ThisWeeksRiddler/#ThisWeeksFiddler. He/Him