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Danny J. Rooney is a musical theater writer in New York City. His credits as a composer/lyricist include "The Game Boy," "A Smalltowne Christmas" and "GLUE: A Pony Tale."
Last year he stumbled on the Times's article How to Make a Crossword and dived head first into constructing. This is his first one for the paper.