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Crossword Innovators

Modern Era constructor debut word counts sorted by name

This table shows the number of new answer words introduced by each constructor.

Only Modern Era constructors with at least 30 debut words are shown here.

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

Constructor	Debuts	Puzzles
Adam Aaronson	96	12
Seth A. Abel	75	14
Peter Abide	61	8
Christopher Adams	51	8
Erik Agard	545	77
Cathy Allis	657	84
Ashton Anderson	77	14
Alan Arbesfeld	618	123
Michael Ashley	115	11
Martin Ashwood-Smith	456	80
Gareth Bain	66	15
Alex Bajcz	54	7
Holden Baker	52	16
Diane C. Baldwin	37	8
Bill Ballard	36	10
George Barany	57	10
Howard Barkin	60	12
Victor Barocas	146	20
Milo Beckman	69	10
Yaakov Bendavid	54	6
Janet R. Bender	92	27
Tracy Bennett	40	5
Marjorie Berg	33	9
Eric Berlin	239	42
Patrick Berry	1842	227
Evan Birnholz	47	8
Sherry O. Blackard	216	53
Michael Blake	60	14
Kelsey Blakley	68	8
Patrick Blindauer	302	59
Daniel Bodily	34	8
Alex Boisvert	37	11
Karen Young Bonin	74	11
Derek Bowman	70	10
Billy Bratton	39	7
Peter Broda	34	3
Daniel C. Bryant	94	9
Sam Buchbinder	53	11
Mike Buckley	53	13
James E. Buell	34	6
Jem Burch	30	5
Zhouqin Burnikel	359	79
Rand H. Burns	113	21
Shannon Burns	53	10
Myles Callum	125	22
Emily Carroll	77	19
Gary Cee	163	40
Andrew Chaikin	41	4
Garrett Chalfin	52	8
Trenton Charlson	152	37
Jeff Chen	887	151
Freddie Cheng	74	16
Richard Chisholm	119	32
Kevan Choset	84	27
Kevin Christian	79	18
Amanda Chung	67	13
Kelly Clark	65	15
Adam Cohen	82	19
Kameron Austin Collins	173	24
Peter A. Collins	581	119
John R. Conrad	64	11
Ethan Cooper	86	15
William S. Cotter	42	7
Tim Croce	200	33
Ricky Cruz	33	7
Mark Danna	48	6
Charles M. Deber	252	20
Joe Deeney	104	18
Chandi Deitmer	33	4
Levi Denham	59	10
Chuck Deodene	242	42
Kevin G. Der	382	42
Alan DerKazarian	31	5
Ella Dershowitz	43	9
Mark Diehl	592	66
Robert Dillman	54	16
Joe DiPietro	1231	137
David Distenfeld	43	7
Chase Dittrich	38	9
Kyle T. Dolan	95	17
Samuel A. Donaldson	241	39
Michael J. Doran	32	7
John Dunn	31	8
Scott Earl	37	5
Ed Early	195	53
Alex Eaton-Salners	238	48
Caleb Emmons	36	6
Harvey Estes	522	116
Trent H. Evans	42	10
Sam Ezersky	446	44
Rachel Fabi	41	8
Joel Fagliano	470	65
John Farmer	176	33
Mark Feldman	70	11
Gerald R. Ferguson	110	22
Royce Ferguson	31	3
Dan Feyer	45	4
Daniel A. Finan	115	15
Victor Fleming	223	47
Jason Flinn	70	14
Pawel Fludzinski	31	7
Neville Fogarty	43	12
Olivia Mitra Framke	48	12
Adam Fromm	78	8
Ernie Furtado	71	12
Matt Gaffney	524	58
Don Gagliardo	56	12
Paula Gamache	504	89
Susan Gelfand	50	17
Charles E. Gersch	97	17
Matt Ginsberg	312	46
Lee Glickstein	134	25
Juliana Tringali Golden	31	5
Rebecca Goldstein	77	15
Bernice Gordon	61	21
Peter Gordon	517	107
Elizabeth C. Gorski	1514	219
Gail Grabowski	34	13
Tracy Gray	209	36
Joseph Greenbaum	42	5
John Greenman	43	12
Daniel Grinberg	34	6
Nick Grivas	33	9
Todd Gross	86	17
Mary Lou Guizzo	149	29
Damon J. Gulczynski	179	46
John Guzzetta	220	40
Bruce Haight	297	63
Katie Hale	67	9
Jake Halperin	70	10
Raymond Hamel	151	27
Frances Hansen	195	40
Nelson Hardy	100	11
Robert W. Harris	46	7
Randall J. Hartman	229	74
Kate Hawkins	60	13
Michael Hawkins	147	24
John Hawksley	37	4
Francis Heaney	82	10
Jim Hilger	53	15
Oliver Hill	88	16
Tyler Hinman	131	22
Scott Hogan	30	3
Henry Hook	211	25
R. Max Hopkins	31	3
Jeremy Horwitz	35	7
Kristian House	106	22
Roland Huget	46	12
Richard Hughes	136	35
Paul Hunsberger	43	8
Christopher Hurt	73	11
Brooke Husic	137	20
Jim Hyres	80	21
Christina Iverson	163	27
Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr.	32	3
Norma Johnson	31	7
William I. Johnston	55	15
Nancy Nicholson Joline	379	48
Patrick Jordan	55	16
Alex K. Justin	103	14
Jonah Kagan	38	6
David J. Kahn	1237	189
Steve Kahn	36	7
Evan Kalish	111	18
Daniel Kantor	39	13
Jay Kaskel	31	12
Craig Kasper	107	15
Nancy Kavanaugh	87	26
Sarah Keller	156	53
Andrew Kingsley	87	23
Laura Taylor Kinnel	59	6
Bob Klahn	465	60
Sharon Klahn	38	3
Pamela Amick Klawitter	55	7
Josh Knapp	131	24
Brandon Koppy	93	16
Andy Kravis	178	25
Joe Krozel	497	87
John Kugelman	33	3
David Kwong	104	23
John Lampkin	54	11
Daniel Larsen	58	11
Natan Last	275	39
Spencer Leach	38	4
Roy Leban	69	13
James R. Leeds	44	8
Lynn Lempel	331	100
Ellen Leuschner	35	9
David Liben-Nowell	62	13
John Lieb	96	19
Michael Lieberman	98	15
Julian Lim	162	26
Barbara Lin	47	11
Wyna Liu	66	8
Ian Livengood	294	55
Robert Logan	31	4
Elizabeth A. Long	42	13
Frank Longo	686	69
Aimee Lucido	83	16
Gilbert H. Ludwig	98	18
David Ainslie Macleod	32	7
Caleb Madison	218	35
Evan Mahnken	41	11
Kyle Mahowald	85	18
Robert Malinow	51	9
Ruth B. Margolin	89	15
Jules P. Markey	78	22
John Scott Marrone	32	7
Daniel Mauer	46	7
Michael S. Maurer	68	19
Sophia Maymudes	51	9
Kevin McCann	36	7
Stephen McCarthy	36	4
Ryan McCarty	232	26
Todd McClary	78	12
Tom McCoy	253	35
Jacob McDermott	37	8
Chris A. McGlothlin	48	7
Hemant Mehta	58	6
Kurt Mengel	32	10
Patrick Merrell	493	91
Alfio Micci	39	11
Andrea Carla Michaels	305	85
Hal Moore	36	9
Dana Motley	148	31
Kurt Mueller	51	7
James Mulhern	150	25
Pete Muller	133	18
Rafael Musa	80	11
Will Nediger	380	48
Gene Newman	57	15
Stanley Newman	87	23
Jeremy Newton	367	26
Karl Ni	67	13
Derrick Niederman	103	9
Dean Niles	137	15
Rich Norris	1112	188
Manny Nosowsky	1613	246
Mike Nothnagel	333	50
Jennifer Nutt	31	9
Stu Ockman	51	13
Jean O'Conor	36	7
Alan Olschwang	56	10
Tony Orbach	231	27
Jim Page	505	70
joon pahk	145	25
Allan E. Parrish	103	39
Paolo Pasco	177	24
Gregory E. Paul	230	116
Trip Payne	338	43
Con Pederson	92	8
Bob Peoples	297	39
Tom Pepper	88	16
Jim Peredo	47	9
Adam G. Perl	92	30
Doug Peterson	257	53
David Phillips	108	20
Fred Piscop	502	106
Timothy Polin	263	55
Lloyd E. Pollet	40	3
David Poole	36	9
David Pringle	33	9
Rich Proulx	46	8
David Quarfoot	290	41
Brendan Emmett Quigley	1164	177
Amanda Rafkin	48	10
Daniel Raymon	61	15
Merl Reagle	75	7
Caitlin Reid	91	16
Andrew Ries	143	26
Claire Rimkus	32	7
Sidney L. Robbins	89	50
Mel Rosen	93	14
Aaron M. Rosenberg	30	5
Nancy S. Ross	86	22
Randolph Ross	1050	115
Lewis Rothlein	54	9
Corey Rubin	59	8
Robert Ryan	39	3
Fran Sabin	120	25
Lou Sabin	137	29
Nancy Salomon	908	185
A. J. Santora	339	68
Thomas W. Schier	79	17
Michael Schlossberg	63	11
Jonathan Schmalzbach	112	31
Martin Schneider	127	12
Dan Schoenholz	172	29
Herre Schouwerwou	34	8
Bob Sefick	44	8
Simeon Seigel	81	12
Margaret Seikel	35	8
Edward Sessa	179	44
Matthew Sewell	75	12
Michael Sharp	47	7
Mike Shenk	55	7
Michael Shteyman	252	51
Lois Sidway	107	18
Barry C. Silk	402	92
Richard Silvestri	430	84
Sid Sivakumar	131	17
Mark Elliot Skolsky	46	13
Blake Slonecker	34	7
Susan Harrington Smith	55	10
Randy Sowell	52	22
Stephanie Spadaccini	126	36
Greg Staples	102	25
Daniel R. Stark	36	16
Nancy Stark	42	7
David Steinberg	650	109
Norma Steinberg	47	17
Gary Steinmehl	32	9
Carolyn W. Stewart	89	21
Jeff Stillman	36	9
Matthew Stock	165	26
Jacob Stulberg	147	34
Mel Taub	43	10
Ben Tausig	70	9
Grant Thackray	97	13
Brian Thomas	58	14
Bill Thompson	42	10
Michael Torch	110	19
Sam Trabucco	291	26
Karen M. Tracey	176	32
Jessie Trudeau	30	5
Ross Trudeau	314	54
Dave Tuller	110	14
Luke Vaughn	30	4
Ashish Vengsarkar	136	19
Bruce Venzke	100	19
Arthur S. Verdesca	39	14
Finn Vigeland	187	21
Xan Vongsathorn	58	9
Alex Vratsanos	82	19
Hoang-Kim Vu	62	10
Michael Vuolo	78	14
Adam Wagner	130	19
Byron Walden	1281	101
Jeffrey Wechsler	107	19
Robyn Weintraub	240	48
Alan Jay Weiss	36	7
Peter Wentz	293	40
John Westwig	87	9
Zoe Wheeler	34	6
Bryant White	211	29
Ned White	141	25
Gary J. Whitehead	38	15
Brad Wiegmann	37	7
Kathy Wienberg	33	8
Michael Wiesenberg	34	5
Brad Wilber	354	60
David Levinson Wilk	182	26
Leonard Williams	39	8
Wayne Robert Williams	162	38
Norman S. Wizer	63	14
Erica Hsiung Wojcik	38	5
Robert H. Wolfe	436	60
John Wolting	58	14
David Woolf	118	17
Yacob Yonas	58	11
Nam Jin Yoon	46	9
Leslie Young	34	6
Raymond C. Young	76	8
Bill Zais	103	15
Stella Zawistowski	92	21
Andrew Zhou	142	18

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