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Crossword Innovators

Shortz Era constructor debut word counts sorted by count

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

Only Shortz 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.

Rank	Constructor	Debuts	Puzzles
1.	Patrick Berry	1842	227
2.	Manny Nosowsky	1613	246
3.	Elizabeth C. Gorski	1514	219
4.	Byron Walden	1246	98
5.	David J. Kahn	1232	187
6.	Joe DiPietro	1221	136
7.	Brendan Emmett Quigley	1152	175
8.	Rich Norris	1104	187
9.	Randolph Ross	1050	115
10.	Nancy Salomon	908	185
11.	Jeff Chen	814	141
12.	Frank Longo	686	69
13.	Cathy Allis	657	84
14.	David Steinberg	635	106
15.	Alan Arbesfeld	615	122
16.	Mark Diehl	592	66
17.	Peter A. Collins	572	117
18.	Erik Agard	527	74
19.	Matt Gaffney	524	58
20.	Harvey Estes	522	116
21.	Jim Page	505	70
22.	Paula Gamache	504	89
	Peter Gordon	504	104
24.	Fred Piscop	502	106
25.	Joe Krozel	497	87
26.	Patrick Merrell	493	91
27.	Bob Klahn	465	60
28.	Martin Ashwood-Smith	456	80
29.	Joel Fagliano	454	63
30.	Robert H. Wolfe	436	60
31.	Richard Silvestri	430	84
32.	Barry C. Silk	402	92
33.	Kevin G. Der	382	42
34.	Sam Ezersky	381	39
35.	Nancy Nicholson Joline	379	48
36.	Will Nediger	365	46
37.	Brad Wilber	354	60
38.	Zhouqin Burnikel	342	76
39.	A. J. Santora	339	68
40.	Trip Payne	338	43
41.	Mike Nothnagel	333	50
42.	Jeremy Newton	329	24
43.	Lynn Lempel	327	98
44.	Ross Trudeau	314	54
45.	Matt Ginsberg	312	46
46.	Patrick Blindauer	302	59
47.	Bob Peoples	297	39
48.	Ian Livengood	294	55
49.	Peter Wentz	293	40
50.	Bruce Haight	292	62
51.	Sam Trabucco	291	26
52.	David Quarfoot	290	41
53.	Andrea Carla Michaels	288	80
54.	Timothy Polin	263	55
55.	Natan Last	260	36
56.	Tom McCoy	253	35
57.	Charles M. Deber	252	20
	Michael Shteyman	252	51
59.	Doug Peterson	244	51
60.	Chuck Deodene	242	42
61.	Eric Berlin	239	42
62.	Samuel A. Donaldson	235	37
63.	Tony Orbach	231	27
64.	Gregory E. Paul	230	116
65.	Randall J. Hartman	229	74
66.	Alex Eaton-Salners	224	45
67.	Victor Fleming	223	47
68.	Robyn Weintraub	220	44
69.	Caleb Madison	218	35
70.	Sherry O. Blackard	216	53
71.	Ryan McCarty	215	24
72.	Henry Hook	211	25
	Bryant White	211	29
74.	John Guzzetta	203	38
75.	Tim Croce	200	33
76.	Ed Early	195	53
	Frances Hansen	195	40
78.	Finn Vigeland	187	21
79.	David Levinson Wilk	182	26
80.	Edward Sessa	179	44
81.	Andy Kravis	178	25
82.	John Farmer	176	33
	Tracy Gray	176	34
	Karen M. Tracey	176	32
85.	Damon J. Gulczynski	175	45
86.	Paolo Pasco	173	23
87.	Dan Schoenholz	170	28
88.	Gary Cee	163	40
89.	Kameron Austin Collins	162	22
	Julian Lim	162	26
	Wayne Robert Williams	162	38
92.	Sarah Keller	156	53
93.	Trenton Charlson	152	37
94.	Raymond Hamel	151	27
95.	James Mulhern	150	25
96.	Mary Lou Guizzo	149	29
97.	Dana Motley	148	31
98.	Michael Hawkins	147	24
	Jacob Stulberg	147	34
100.	joon pahk	145	25
101.	Andrew Ries	143	26
102.	Andrew Zhou	142	18
103.	Ned White	141	25
104.	Victor Barocas	140	18
105.	Dean Niles	137	15
	Lou Sabin	137	29
	Matthew Stock	137	20
108.	Richard Hughes	136	35
	Ashish Vengsarkar	136	19
110.	Lee Glickstein	134	25
111.	Pete Muller	133	18
112.	Tyler Hinman	131	22
	Josh Knapp	131	24
114.	Martin Schneider	127	12
115.	Stephanie Spadaccini	126	36
116.	Myles Callum	125	22
117.	Brooke Husic	120	17
	Fran Sabin	120	25
119.	Richard Chisholm	119	32
120.	David Woolf	118	17
121.	Michael Ashley	115	11
	Daniel A. Finan	115	15
123.	Rand H. Burns	113	21
124.	Jonathan Schmalzbach	112	31
125.	Gerald R. Ferguson	110	22
	Michael Torch	110	19
	Dave Tuller	110	14
128.	David Phillips	108	20
129.	Christina Iverson	107	16
	Craig Kasper	107	15
	Lois Sidway	107	18
	Jeffrey Wechsler	107	19
133.	Kristian House	106	22
	Evan Kalish	106	17
135.	Alex K. Justin	103	14
	Derrick Niederman	103	9
	Allan E. Parrish	103	39
	Bill Zais	103	15
139.	David Kwong	102	22
	Greg Staples	102	25
141.	Nelson Hardy	100	11
	Bruce Venzke	100	19
143.	Gilbert H. Ludwig	98	18
144.	Charles E. Gersch	97	17
	Grant Thackray	97	13
146.	Adam Aaronson	96	12
	John Lieb	96	19
	Sid Sivakumar	96	13
149.	Kyle T. Dolan	95	17
150.	Daniel C. Bryant	94	9
	Joe Deeney	94	16
152.	Mel Rosen	93	14
	Adam Wagner	93	14
154.	Janet R. Bender	92	27
	Con Pederson	92	8
	Adam G. Perl	92	30
157.	Stella Zawistowski	90	20
158.	Sidney L. Robbins	89	50
	Carolyn W. Stewart	89	21
160.	Oliver Hill	88	16
	Caitlin Reid	88	15
162.	Nancy Kavanaugh	87	26
	Ruth B. Margolin	87	14
	Stanley Newman	87	23
165.	Ethan Cooper	86	15
	Todd Gross	86	17
	Nancy S. Ross	86	22
168.	Kyle Mahowald	85	18
169.	Kevan Choset	84	27
170.	Adam Cohen	82	19
	Francis Heaney	82	10
172.	Jim Hyres	80	21
173.	Tom Pepper	79	14
	Thomas W. Schier	79	17
175.	Adam Fromm	78	8
	Jules P. Markey	78	22
	Todd McClary	78	12
	Michael Vuolo	78	14
179.	Ashton Anderson	77	14
	Andrew Kingsley	77	19
181.	Alex Vratsanos	76	18
	Raymond C. Young	76	8
183.	Seth A. Abel	75	14
	Emily Carroll	75	18
	Merl Reagle	75	7
	Matthew Sewell	75	12
187.	Karen Young Bonin	74	11
188.	Christopher Hurt	73	11
189.	Aimee Lucido	72	13
190.	Kevin Christian	71	16
	Ernie Furtado	71	12
192.	Derek Bowman	70	10
	Mark Feldman	70	11
	Jason Flinn	70	14
	Brandon Koppy	70	11
	Ben Tausig	70	9
197.	Milo Beckman	69	10
	Roy Leban	69	13
199.	Kelsey Blakley	68	8
	Michael S. Maurer	68	19
201.	Amanda Chung	67	13
	Jake Halperin	67	9
	Karl Ni	67	13
204.	Gareth Bain	66	15
	Michael Lieberman	66	11
206.	Kelly Clark	65	15
207.	Freddie Cheng	64	13
	John R. Conrad	64	11
209.	Norman S. Wizer	63	14
210.	Peter Abide	61	8
	Bernice Gordon	61	21
	David Liben-Nowell	61	12
	Wyna Liu	61	7
	Daniel Raymon	61	15
215.	Howard Barkin	60	12
	Michael Blake	60	14
217.	Levi Denham	59	10
	Laura Taylor Kinnel	59	6
	Corey Rubin	59	8
220.	Daniel Larsen	58	11
	Xan Vongsathorn	58	9
	John Wolting	58	14
	Yacob Yonas	58	11
224.	George Barany	57	10
	Gene Newman	57	15
226.	Don Gagliardo	56	12
	Alan Olschwang	56	10
228.	William I. Johnston	55	15
	Patrick Jordan	55	16
	Pamela Amick Klawitter	55	7
	Mike Shenk	55	7
	Susan Harrington Smith	55	10
	Brian Thomas	55	13
234.	Alex Bajcz	54	7
	Yaakov Bendavid	54	6
	Robert Dillman	54	16
	John Lampkin	54	11
238.	Mike Buckley	53	13
	Shannon Burns	53	10
	Jim Hilger	53	15
241.	Holden Baker	52	16
	Randy Sowell	52	22
243.	Christopher Adams	51	8
	Kate Hawkins	51	11
	Robert Malinow	51	9
	Sophia Maymudes	51	9
	Kurt Mueller	51	7
	Stu Ockman	51	13
249.	Sam Buchbinder	50	10
	Susan Gelfand	50	17
251.	Mark Danna	48	6
	Chris A. McGlothlin	48	7
	Amanda Rafkin	48	10
254.	Evan Birnholz	47	8
	Jim Peredo	47	9
	Michael Sharp	47	7
	Norma Steinberg	47	17
258.	Katie Hale	46	6
	Robert W. Harris	46	7
	Roland Huget	46	12
	Rich Proulx	46	8
	Mark Elliot Skolsky	46	13
	Nam Jin Yoon	46	9
264.	Dan Feyer	45	4
	Lewis Rothlein	45	8
266.	Olivia Mitra Framke	44	11
	James R. Leeds	44	8
	Bob Sefick	44	8
269.	Neville Fogarty	43	12
	John Greenman	43	12
	Paul Hunsberger	43	8
	Mel Taub	43	10
	John Westwig	43	6
274.	William S. Cotter	42	7
	Joseph Greenbaum	42	5
	Elizabeth A. Long	42	13
	Nancy Stark	42	7
278.	Andrew Chaikin	41	4
	Evan Mahnken	41	11
280.	Barbara Lin	40	9
	Daniel Mauer	40	6
	Lloyd E. Pollet	40	3
283.	Daniel Kantor	39	13
	Alfio Micci	39	11
	Arthur S. Verdesca	39	14
	Leonard Williams	39	8
287.	Ella Dershowitz	38	7
	Trent H. Evans	38	9
	Jonah Kagan	38	6
	Sharon Klahn	38	3
	Gary J. Whitehead	38	15
292.	Diane C. Baldwin	37	8
	Alex Boisvert	37	11
294.	Bill Ballard	36	10
	Caleb Emmons	36	6
	Steve Kahn	36	7
	Kevin McCann	36	7
	Stephen McCarthy	36	4
	Hal Moore	36	9
	Jean O'Conor	36	7
	David Poole	36	9
	Simeon Seigel	36	5
	Daniel R. Stark	36	16
	Bill Thompson	36	9
	Alan Jay Weiss	36	7
306.	David Distenfeld	35	5
	Chase Dittrich	35	7
	Jeremy Horwitz	35	7
	Ellen Leuschner	35	9
310.	Peter Broda	34	3
	James E. Buell	34	6
	Gail Grabowski	34	13
	Herre Schouwerwou	34	8
	Zoe Wheeler	34	6
	Michael Wiesenberg	34	5
	Leslie Young	34	6
317.	Marjorie Berg	33	9
	Scott Earl	33	4
	Nick Grivas	33	9
	Hemant Mehta	33	3
	David Pringle	33	9
	Margaret Seikel	33	7
	Kathy Wienberg	33	8
324.	Michael J. Doran	32	7
	Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr.	32	3
	David Ainslie Macleod	32	7
	John Scott Marrone	32	7
	Kurt Mengel	32	10
	Claire Rimkus	32	7
	Gary Steinmehl	32	9
331.	Ricky Cruz	31	6
	Alan DerKazarian	31	5
	John Dunn	31	8
	Pawel Fludzinski	31	7
	R. Max Hopkins	31	3
	Norma Johnson	31	7
	Jay Kaskel	31	12
338.	Rebecca Goldstein	30	7
	Jessie Trudeau	30	5
	Luke Vaughn	30	4

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