“Monday through Thursday puzzles generally have a theme, which is typically the style that I construct,” says Crinnion. 31 and had the revealer answer of “CHANGING LANES.” Anne Marie Crinnion recently had her first crossword puzzle published by The New York Times. From the time Crinnion submitted the puzzle to the time it was published took about nine months, although she found out three months ago it had been accepted.Ĭrinnion’s puzzle appeared on Monday, Aug.
“The odds are against you,” says Crinnion, who has also had a puzzle appear in The Wall Street Journal and is currently working on one for The Atlantic. The Times crossword puzzle is the gold standard in the intensively competitive crossword world and receives hundreds of submissions a week, for only seven spots. I started to think about fun ways that words connect and that leads to a fun theme idea, which leads to an interesting puzzle.” From there, we created a good word list and ranked words and got a computer program that makes the formatting a lot easier. Making that got both of us interested, and we found out it is actually something fun to do.
“It wasn’t really a true crossword puzzle, as it wasn’t formatted nicely or have the rules in place for a New York Times puzzle. “A few years ago, I had the idea of making a little puzzle for my boyfriend as a gift,” says Crinnion. The end of August was quite eventful for Anne Marie Crinnion: she started her doctoral studies in psychological sciences at UConn, and a crossword puzzle she wrote appeared in The New York Times for the first time.Ĭrinnion, who is studying remotely this semester from her home in Villanova, Pa., started solving crossword puzzles towards the end of high school and began doing the famously challenging Times crossword on daily basis as undergraduate at Harvard.
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