Crossword Innovators

Debut word count by constructor

This table shows the number of new answer words introduced by each constructor.
Only constructors with 10 or more puzzles are shown here.

*** Click any constructor name for the complete list of still-unique and since-reused words. ***

Rank	Constructor	Debuts	Puzzles
1.	Manny Nosowsky	2615	246
2.	Patrick Berry	2484	172
3.	Elizabeth C. Gorski	2259	201
4.	Rich Norris	1712	186
5.	David J. Kahn	1683	154
6.	Nancy Salomon	1537	185
7.	Joe DiPietro	1488	116
8.	Brendan Emmett Quigley	1372	144
9.	Randolph Ross	1296	98
10.	Byron Walden	1071	60
11.	Frank Longo	895	68
12.	Cathy Allis	893	84
13.	Harvey Estes	871	116
14.	Alan Arbesfeld	756	93
15.	Patrick Merrell	725	80
16.	Jim Page	714	69
17.	Robert H. Wolfe	713	60
18.	Fred Piscop	694	102
19.	Richard Silvestri	667	84
20.	Paula Gamache	663	74
21.	Mark Diehl	616	51
22.	Nancy Nicholson Joline	612	48
23.	Peter Gordon	602	76
24.	Bob Klahn	596	60
25.	A. J. Santora	557	68
26.	Joe Krozel	542	63
27.	Matt Gaffney	533	58
28.	Bob Peoples	531	39
29.	Barry C. Silk	527	76
30.	Trip Payne	508	41
31.	Sherry O. Blackard	477	53
32.	Mike Nothnagel	475	50
33.	Martin Ashwood-Smith	468	61
34.	Peter A. Collins	467	68
35.	Michael Shteyman	388	45
36.	Lynn Lempel	384	61
37.	Gregory E. Paul	379	116
38.	Matt Ginsberg	369	34
39.	David Quarfoot	364	38
40.	Eric Berlin	358	36
41.	Frances Hansen	354	40
42.	Kevin G. Der	353	28
43.	Randall J. Hartman	342	73
44.	Charles M. Deber	337	18
45.	Dana Motley	321	30
46.	Ed Early	319	53
47.	Henry Hook	317	24
48.	Karen M. Tracey	315	32
49.	Patrick Blindauer	306	41
50.	Bryant White	296	28
51.	Chuck Deodene	289	38
	Victor Fleming	289	36
53.	Brad Wilber	272	30
54.	Sarah Keller	256	49
55.	Myles Callum	233	22
56.	John Farmer	229	29
57.	Tony Orbach	222	21
	Wayne Robert Williams	222	38
59.	Lee Glickstein	217	25
60.	Raymond Hamel	216	27
	Caleb Madison	216	29
62.	Tyler Hinman	213	22
63.	Bill Zais	209	14
64.	Lou Sabin	205	29
	David Levinson Wilk	205	20
66.	Greg Staples	203	25
67.	Andrea Carla Michaels	202	37
68.	Will Nediger	200	18
69.	Richard Hughes	199	35
70.	Doug Peterson	196	27
71.	Tim Croce	192	22
72.	Craig Kasper	189	15
73.	Richard Chisholm	188	32
74.	Fran Sabin	178	25
75.	Rand H. Burns	177	21
76.	Nelson Hardy	163	11
	Martin Schneider	163	12
78.	Ian Livengood	162	26
79.	Gilbert H. Ludwig	157	18
	Dean Niles	157	15
	joon pahk	157	18
	Allan E. Parrish	157	36
83.	Pete Muller	155	15
84.	Nancy Kavanaugh	151	26
85.	Gerald R. Ferguson	150	22
	Charles E. Gersch	150	17
87.	Joel Fagliano	147	17
	Ashish Vengsarkar	147	15
89.	Sidney L. Robbins	144	50
90.	Daniel A. Finan	143	12
	Bruce Venzke	143	17
92.	Michael Torch	142	18
93.	Adam Cohen	140	19
	Jonathan Schmalzbach	140	30
95.	Jim Hyres	139	20
	Nancy S. Ross	139	22
97.	Dave Tuller	137	14
	Peter Wentz	137	13
99.	Stephanie Spadaccini	136	36
100.	Natan Last	128	14
101.	Oliver Hill	127	16
	Carolyn W. Stewart	127	19
103.	Michael Vuolo	126	14
104.	Mark Feldman	121	10
105.	Todd McClary	120	12
106.	Edward Sessa	119	15
107.	Mel Rosen	112	10
108.	Michael S. Maurer	111	15
109.	Janet Bender	110	26
	Stella Daily	110	14
111.	Alex K. Justin	106	14
112.	Kevan Choset	105	24
	Thomas W. Schier	105	17
	Lois Sidway	105	18
115.	Ernie Furtado	104	12
116.	Gary Cee	103	17
117.	Roy Leban	102	12
118.	Josh Knapp	100	11
119.	Ethan Cooper	99	13
120.	Kyle Mahowald	95	14
121.	Kelly Clark	94	13
122.	John R. Conrad	92	11
	Samuel A. Donaldson	92	12
	Randy Sowell	92	21
125.	William I. Johnston	91	15
	Stanley Newman	91	16
	Norman S. Wizer	91	14
128.	Holden Baker	90	16
129.	Karen Young Bonin	89	11
	Levi Denham	89	10
	Christopher Hurt	89	11
	Gene Newman	89	14
	John Wolting	89	14
134.	Jeff Chen	88	14
135.	Adam G. Perl	84	20
136.	Bernice Gordon	83	18
	Daniel R. Stark	83	16
138.	Seth A. Abel	82	11
139.	David Steinberg	80	11
140.	Alfio Micci	79	11
141.	John Underwood	77	14
142.	Patrick Jordan	76	16
143.	Julian Lim	74	10
144.	Gary J. Whitehead	73	13
145.	John Greenman	72	12
	Susan Harrington Smith	72	10
147.	Robert Dillman	71	16
148.	Shannon Burns	68	10
149.	Mark Elliot Skolsky	62	13
150.	Mel Taub	59	10
151.	Norma Steinberg	58	17
152.	Kristian House	57	10
153.	Elizabeth A. Long	55	10
154.	Alex Boisvert	53	10
	Gail Grabowski	53	12
156.	Sheldon Benardo	51	11
	Arthur S. Verdesca	51	14
158.	Eileen Lexau	47	10
159.	Bill Ballard	46	10
	Robert Zimmerman	46	12