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Least fresh constructors in the Modern Era

Freshness Factor™ rewards grids with unique or unusual words, and downgrades grids with many common entries. Constructors here are listed by their average freshness. Sunday and Rebus puzzles are excluded from these calculations. Constructors need at least 10 qualifying crosswords.

This is not a measurement of crossword quality. Many of the most memorable NYT puzzles have low Freshness scores.

Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins
Kurt Mengel
Kurt Mengel
Gregory E. Paul
Gregory E. Paul
Randall J. Hartman
Randall J. Hartman
Robert Dillman
Robert Dillman
Adam G. Perl
Adam G. Perl
John Greenman
John Greenman
RankNameAvg. FreshnessStalest grid
1.Sidney L. Robbins 4.4Monday, November 29, 1993
2.Kurt Mengel 5.1Monday, January 12, 2004
3.Gregory E. Paul 5.3Monday, February 2, 1998
4.Randall J. Hartman 5.4Tuesday, August 16, 2005
5.Robert Dillman 8.9Monday, June 7, 1999
6.Adam G. Perl 9.5Wednesday, May 24, 2006
7.John Greenman 9.7Monday, January 12, 1998
8.Gail Grabowski 9.8Tuesday, December 16, 2008
9.Norma Steinberg 10.0Monday, September 24, 2001
10.Nancy Kavanaugh 11.4Tuesday, September 28, 2004
11.Stephanie Spadaccini 13.3Monday, March 17, 1997
12.Janet R. Bender 13.6Wednesday, June 19, 2002
13.Sheldon Benardo 13.8Monday, July 6, 1998
14.Robert Zimmerman 14.0Tuesday, February 1, 1994
15.Sarah Keller 14.8Tuesday, August 21, 2001
16.Daniel Kantor 15.0Thursday, September 27, 2018
17.Randy Sowell 16.0Thursday, April 28, 1994
18.Carolyn W. Stewart 16.0Monday, July 13, 2009
19.Andrea Carla Michaels 16.5Monday, September 19, 2022
20.Jonathan Schmalzbach 16.5Monday, October 17, 1994
21.Lynn Lempel 17.5Monday, September 25, 2006
22.Richard Silvestri 18.2Wednesday, March 30, 2005
23.Arthur S. Verdesca 18.3Wednesday, January 19, 2000
24.Tom McCoy 18.4Wednesday, February 3, 2016
25.Bill Ballard 19.0Monday, June 5, 2000
26.Nancy S. Ross 19.0Wednesday, November 24, 1993
27.Richard Hughes 20.8Monday, August 28, 2000
28.Peter Gordon 20.8Tuesday, June 5, 2001
29.Greg Staples 21.3Wednesday, June 21, 2000
30.Michael Blake 22.0Monday, August 25, 2008
31.Patrick Jordan 22.1Wednesday, June 26, 1996
32.Jay Kaskel 22.9Tuesday, August 2, 2022
33.Nancy Salomon 23.5Monday, May 22, 2000
34.Richard Chisholm 24.4Wednesday, October 10, 2001
35.Holden Baker 24.5Monday, October 10, 2005
36.Stanley Newman 25.5Monday, August 28, 2006
37.Roy Leban 25.9Tuesday, July 8, 2003
38.Jules P. Markey 26.4Tuesday, March 12, 2019
39.Mel Taub 26.8Wednesday, April 25, 2001
40.Fred Piscop 27.1Wednesday, March 2, 2016
41.Kevin Christian 27.3Monday, November 3, 2025
42.Mark Elliot Skolsky 27.7Tuesday, April 9, 1996
43.Lee Glickstein 28.6Wednesday, February 23, 2005
44.Freddie Cheng 28.7Tuesday, January 30, 2024
45.Oliver Hill 29.1Tuesday, October 2, 2007
46.Kelly Clark 29.1Thursday, April 30, 1998
47.Bernice Gordon 29.8Monday, July 2, 2012
48.Eric Bornstein 30.0Wednesday, May 4, 2022
49.Kevan Choset 30.4Tuesday, April 25, 2006
50.Ethan Cooper 30.6Monday, May 17, 1999
51.Gene Newman 30.8Tuesday, February 15, 2005
52.Michael S. Maurer 30.8Wednesday, December 27, 2000
53.Neville Fogarty 31.0Tuesday, May 30, 2017
54.Victor Barocas 31.2Wednesday, May 14, 2014
55.Ed Early 31.4Tuesday, July 29, 2003
56.Trent H. Evans 31.4Monday, November 4, 2019
57.Dan Schoenholz 31.4Tuesday, February 12, 2013
58.Elizabeth A. Long 31.4Thursday, July 17, 2008
59.Cathy Allis 31.8Thursday, January 9, 1997
60.Jeff Stillman 32.3Tuesday, May 22, 2018
61.Susan Gelfand 32.5Monday, November 3, 2008
62.Norman S. Wizer 32.5Monday, November 21, 1994
63.Alan Arbesfeld 32.8Monday, February 5, 2018
64.Gary Cee 33.0Monday, April 24, 2017
65.Zhouqin Burnikel 33.1Monday, June 4, 2018
66.Michael Torch 33.1Monday, March 21, 2005
67.Lou Sabin 33.5Monday, September 13, 1999
68.Amanda Chung 34.2Wednesday, July 29, 2020
69.Karl Ni 34.2Wednesday, July 29, 2020
70.Gareth Bain 34.2Monday, August 13, 2012
71.Patrick Blindauer 34.6Monday, June 23, 2008
72.Jacob Stulberg 35.0Wednesday, May 20, 2015
73.Frances Hansen 35.9Tuesday, October 10, 2000
74.Fran Sabin 37.0Monday, September 13, 1999
75.Wayne Robert Williams 37.6Wednesday, January 3, 1996
76.John Underwood 37.7Thursday, May 23, 2002
77.Evan Kalish 38.0Monday, April 13, 2020
78.Allan E. Parrish 38.2Monday, July 1, 2002
79.Michael Vuolo 38.4Monday, July 26, 1999
80.Tracy Gray 38.6Wednesday, November 3, 2010
81.Lois Sidway 38.6Wednesday, March 1, 1995
82.Ella Dershowitz 38.6Tuesday, February 14, 2023
83.David Kwong 38.7Thursday, April 18, 2024
84.Daniel Bodily 39.6Monday, July 8, 2024
85.Bruce Venzke 40.2Wednesday, May 23, 2007
86.Bruce Haight 40.7Tuesday, April 18, 2017
87.Rebecca Goldstein 40.9Monday, February 7, 2022
88.Emily Carroll 41.1Monday, October 31, 2022
89.Jeffrey Wechsler 41.6Tuesday, March 3, 2009
90.Ross Trudeau 41.7Tuesday, March 31, 2020
91.Aimee Lucido 41.9Tuesday, May 28, 2019
92.Raymond Hamel 41.9Monday, June 19, 2006
93.Daniel Raymon 42.1Tuesday, July 2, 2013
94.Mike Buckley 42.2Monday, August 17, 2009
95.Jim Hilger 42.6Thursday, May 20, 2010
96.Michael Lieberman 42.7Monday, March 1, 2021
97.Edward Sessa 43.2Tuesday, October 16, 2018
98.Patrick Merrell 43.2Monday, October 12, 2015
99.Margaret Seikel 43.5Monday, September 26, 2022
100.Harvey Estes 43.5Monday, September 30, 2002
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