New York Times Crossword Editors

In the history of the New York Times crossword, there have been 27,463 daily puzzles and four full-time editors. Mel Taub was the interim editor following Mr. Maleska's death in 1993. Joel Fagliano was the interim editor while Mr. Shortz was recovering from a stroke in 2024.

The puzzle counts below are the actual number of puzzles with each editor's byline, not the number of days they served. Because of strikes and other issues, some days had no puzzles.

Only daily puzzles are counted here. (Variety puzzles have incomplete data.)

	Margaret Farrar edited 7,085 daily crosswords from Sun Feb 15, 1942 to Sun Jan 5, 1969 (25.8% of total)
	Will Weng edited 2,975 daily crosswords from Mon Jan 6, 1969 to Sun Feb 27, 1977 (10.8% of total)
	Eugene T. Maleska edited 5,946 daily crosswords from Mon Feb 28, 1977 to Sun Sep 5, 1993 (21.7% of total)
	Mel Taub edited 77 daily crosswords from Sun Aug 29, 1993 to Sat Nov 20, 1993 (0.3% of total)
	Will Shortz edited 11,089 daily crosswords from Sun Nov 21, 1993 to Thu Jan 16, 2025 (40.4% of total)
	Joel Fagliano edited 291 daily crosswords from Thu Mar 14, 2024 to Sun Dec 29, 2024 (1.1% of total)

In the Shortz Era, there were only four times when the editor byline read something other than Will Shortz.

• March 17, 1996, was edited by Will McShortz
• January 15, 2004, was edited by Will Shorts
• August 20, 2011, was edited by Brian Cimmet and Patrick Blindauer
• March 4, 2019, was edited by Bill Shortz

That 2011 crossword was the playoff puzzle from the Lollapuzzola 4 tournament.