How I Crossed Crosswords Part 3: Constructing a Crossword
18 min readJan 1, 2024
It dawned upon me one day that I should construct a crossword puzzle. Exactly what piqued my interest is hard to describe in one word, but it goes something like this: after doing the New York Times and Universal daily crossword for over two years and having solved about 3000 puzzles, I wanted to create one. In the first part of my crossword journey, I described how I encountered this…