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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 4.3Monday, November 29, 1993
2.Kurt Mengel 5.1Monday, January 12, 2004
3.Gregory E. Paul 5.2Tuesday, September 13, 1994
4.Randall J. Hartman 5.4Monday, November 7, 1994
5.Robert Dillman 8.8Monday, February 9, 1998
6.Adam G. Perl 9.5Monday, December 28, 1998
7.John Greenman 9.6Wednesday, February 16, 1994
8.Gail Grabowski 10.1Monday, November 18, 2002
9.Norma Steinberg 10.2Wednesday, December 8, 1993
10.Nancy Kavanaugh 11.5Monday, May 3, 1999
11.Stephanie Spadaccini 13.2Tuesday, March 22, 1994
12.Janet R. Bender 13.4Monday, January 31, 1994
13.Sheldon Benardo 13.8Monday, July 6, 1998
14.Robert Zimmerman 14.0Tuesday, February 1, 1994
15.Sarah Keller 14.7Monday, October 2, 2000
16.Daniel Kantor 15.1Tuesday, August 7, 2007
17.Randy Sowell 15.8Thursday, April 28, 1994
18.Carolyn W. Stewart 16.1Tuesday, December 26, 2006
19.Jonathan Schmalzbach 16.3Tuesday, February 15, 1994
20.Andrea Carla Michaels 16.4Monday, June 12, 2000
21.Lynn Lempel 17.9Monday, August 19, 2002
22.Richard Silvestri 18.0Thursday, December 2, 1993
23.Arthur S. Verdesca 18.2Wednesday, June 22, 1994
24.Nancy S. Ross 18.8Wednesday, November 24, 1993
25.Bill Ballard 18.8Tuesday, February 24, 1998
26.Tom McCoy 19.9Thursday, November 14, 2013
27.Richard Hughes 20.4Tuesday, November 8, 1994
28.Peter Gordon 20.6Monday, December 6, 1993
29.Greg Staples 21.2Wednesday, November 3, 1999
30.Michael Blake 21.8Monday, January 28, 2008
31.Patrick Jordan 22.0Tuesday, March 19, 1996
32.Jay Kaskel 22.8Wednesday, April 9, 2008
33.Nancy Salomon 23.4Tuesday, September 23, 1997
34.Richard Chisholm 24.1Monday, October 12, 1998
35.Holden Baker 24.3Monday, November 17, 1997
36.Stanley Newman 25.3Wednesday, January 19, 1994
37.Roy Leban 25.7Monday, September 16, 2002
38.Mel Taub 26.3Thursday, May 5, 1994
39.Jules P. Markey 26.5Thursday, May 10, 2012
40.Fred Piscop 27.0Monday, November 22, 1993
41.Mark Elliot Skolsky 27.5Tuesday, January 30, 1996
42.Lee Glickstein 28.1Thursday, March 18, 2004
43.Oliver Hill 28.6Tuesday, October 2, 2007
44.Kelly Clark 28.7Wednesday, October 29, 1997
45.Kevin Christian 29.2Wednesday, May 22, 2013
46.Bernice Gordon 29.4Monday, April 25, 1994
47.Freddie Cheng 29.6Monday, July 12, 2010
48.Kevan Choset 30.2Thursday, May 6, 2004
49.Gene Newman 30.3Wednesday, March 20, 1996
50.Ethan Cooper 30.5Monday, May 17, 1999
51.Eric Bornstein 30.6Monday, August 3, 2020
52.Michael S. Maurer 30.7Friday, May 19, 1995
53.Ed Early 31.0Thursday, July 7, 1994
54.Elizabeth A. Long 31.2Monday, July 16, 2007
55.Cathy Allis 31.2Wednesday, March 23, 1994
56.Dan Schoenholz 31.5Tuesday, February 12, 2013
57.Trent H. Evans 31.8Monday, September 3, 2018
58.Norman S. Wizer 32.1Friday, December 31, 1993
59.Susan Gelfand 32.2Monday, November 3, 2008
60.Alan Arbesfeld 32.6Monday, September 18, 1995
61.Victor Barocas 32.7Wednesday, February 9, 2011
62.Neville Fogarty 32.9Thursday, May 3, 2012
63.Michael Torch 33.0Tuesday, December 23, 2003
64.Lou Sabin 33.2Wednesday, May 4, 1994
65.Gary Cee 33.4Thursday, May 28, 2009
66.Zhouqin Burnikel 34.1Tuesday, November 13, 2012
67.Gareth Bain 34.3Wednesday, April 6, 2011
68.Patrick Blindauer 34.6Thursday, July 21, 2005
69.Amanda Chung 34.6Tuesday, July 17, 2018
70.Karl Ni 34.6Tuesday, July 17, 2018
71.Frances Hansen 35.4Wednesday, March 15, 1995
72.Jacob Stulberg 36.6Wednesday, December 25, 2013
73.Fran Sabin 36.7Wednesday, October 5, 1994
74.Wayne Robert Williams 37.2Saturday, April 30, 1994
75.John Underwood 37.4Thursday, May 23, 2002
76.Allan E. Parrish 37.9Monday, July 1, 2002
77.Michael Vuolo 37.9Thursday, July 8, 1999
78.Lois Sidway 38.5Tuesday, November 23, 1993
79.David Kwong 38.6Saturday, April 1, 2006
80.Evan Kalish 38.7Monday, July 2, 2018
81.Tracy Gray 38.8Wednesday, November 3, 2010
82.Bruce Venzke 39.9Thursday, August 26, 2004
83.Bruce Haight 40.9Thursday, January 3, 2013
84.Emily Carroll 41.4Monday, August 22, 2016
85.Michael Lieberman 41.4Monday, March 1, 2021
86.Jeffrey Wechsler 41.6Tuesday, March 3, 2009
87.Raymond Hamel 41.7Saturday, January 22, 1994
88.Rebecca Goldstein 41.9Monday, February 7, 2022
89.Mike Buckley 42.1Monday, August 17, 2009
90.Ross Trudeau 42.2Thursday, February 9, 2017
91.Aimee Lucido 42.2Monday, September 13, 2010
92.Jim Hilger 42.3Thursday, May 20, 2010
93.Patrick Merrell 42.9Tuesday, July 10, 2001
94.Edward Sessa 43.0Monday, September 10, 2007
95.Harvey Estes 43.1Wednesday, December 29, 1993
96.Daniel Raymon 43.2Monday, October 20, 2008
97.Elizabeth C. Gorski 43.4Monday, July 31, 1995
98.Kyle Mahowald 44.2Monday, March 22, 2004
99.Stella Zawistowski 44.4Thursday, August 26, 2004
100.Ian Livengood 44.6Monday, April 12, 2010
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