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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 9.7Wednesday, February 16, 1994
8.Gail Grabowski 10.0Monday, 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 13.5Monday, January 31, 1994
13.Sheldon Benardo 13.8Monday, July 6, 1998
14.Robert Zimmerman 14.0Tuesday, February 1, 1994
15.Sarah Keller 14.8Monday, October 2, 2000
16.Daniel Kantor 15.0Tuesday, August 7, 2007
17.Randy Sowell 15.9Thursday, April 28, 1994
18.Andrea Carla Michaels 16.1Monday, June 12, 2000
19.Carolyn W. Stewart 16.2Tuesday, December 26, 2006
20.Jonathan Schmalzbach 16.4Tuesday, February 15, 1994
21.Lynn Lempel 17.7Monday, August 19, 2002
22.Richard Silvestri 18.1Thursday, December 2, 1993
23.Arthur S. Verdesca 18.3Wednesday, June 22, 1994
24.Nancy S. Ross 18.8Wednesday, November 24, 1993
25.Bill Ballard 18.9Tuesday, February 24, 1998
26.Tom McCoy 19.9Thursday, November 14, 2013
27.Richard Hughes 20.5Tuesday, November 8, 1994
28.Peter Gordon 20.7Monday, December 6, 1993
29.Greg Staples 21.4Wednesday, November 3, 1999
30.Michael Blake 21.9Monday, 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 24.2Monday, October 12, 1998
35.Holden Baker 24.4Monday, November 17, 1997
36.Stanley Newman 25.3Wednesday, January 19, 1994
37.Daniel Bodily 25.5Thursday, March 17, 2022
38.Roy Leban 25.8Monday, September 16, 2002
39.Mel Taub 26.5Thursday, May 5, 1994
40.Jules P. Markey 26.6Thursday, May 10, 2012
41.Fred Piscop 27.0Monday, November 22, 1993
42.Mark Elliot Skolsky 27.6Tuesday, January 30, 1996
43.Lee Glickstein 28.3Thursday, March 18, 2004
44.Oliver Hill 28.7Tuesday, October 2, 2007
45.Kelly Clark 29.0Wednesday, October 29, 1997
46.Kevin Christian 29.2Wednesday, May 22, 2013
47.Bernice Gordon 29.5Monday, April 25, 1994
48.Freddie Cheng 29.6Monday, July 12, 2010
49.Kevan Choset 30.3Thursday, May 6, 2004
50.Gene Newman 30.4Wednesday, March 20, 1996
51.Ethan Cooper 30.6Monday, May 17, 1999
52.Eric Bornstein 30.6Monday, August 3, 2020
53.Michael S. Maurer 30.7Friday, May 19, 1995
54.Ed Early 31.1Thursday, July 7, 1994
55.Elizabeth A. Long 31.2Monday, July 16, 2007
56.Cathy Allis 31.4Wednesday, March 23, 1994
57.Dan Schoenholz 31.5Tuesday, February 12, 2013
58.Trent H. Evans 31.7Monday, September 3, 2018
59.Susan Gelfand 32.3Monday, November 3, 2008
60.Norman S. Wizer 32.3Friday, December 31, 1993
61.Alan Arbesfeld 32.7Monday, September 18, 1995
62.Victor Barocas 32.8Wednesday, February 9, 2011
63.Neville Fogarty 33.0Thursday, May 3, 2012
64.Michael Torch 33.0Tuesday, December 23, 2003
65.Lou Sabin 33.3Wednesday, May 4, 1994
66.Gary Cee 33.4Thursday, May 28, 2009
67.Zhouqin Burnikel 34.0Tuesday, November 13, 2012
68.Gareth Bain 34.2Wednesday, April 6, 2011
69.Patrick Blindauer 34.6Thursday, July 21, 2005
70.Amanda Chung 34.6Tuesday, July 17, 2018
71.Karl Ni 34.6Tuesday, July 17, 2018
72.Frances Hansen 35.6Wednesday, March 15, 1995
73.Jacob Stulberg 36.5Wednesday, December 25, 2013
74.Fran Sabin 36.8Wednesday, October 5, 1994
75.Wayne Robert Williams 37.4Saturday, April 30, 1994
76.John Underwood 37.6Thursday, May 23, 2002
77.Allan E. Parrish 38.0Monday, July 1, 2002
78.Michael Vuolo 38.1Thursday, July 8, 1999
79.Lois Sidway 38.5Tuesday, November 23, 1993
80.Evan Kalish 38.7Monday, July 2, 2018
81.David Kwong 38.7Saturday, April 1, 2006
82.Tracy Gray 38.8Wednesday, November 3, 2010
83.Michael Lieberman 39.8Monday, March 1, 2021
84.Bruce Venzke 40.1Thursday, August 26, 2004
85.Rebecca Goldstein 40.2Monday, February 7, 2022
86.Bruce Haight 40.9Thursday, January 3, 2013
87.Emily Carroll 41.4Monday, August 22, 2016
88.Jeffrey Wechsler 41.6Tuesday, March 3, 2009
89.Raymond Hamel 41.8Saturday, January 22, 1994
90.Aimee Lucido 42.1Monday, September 13, 2010
91.Ross Trudeau 42.2Thursday, February 9, 2017
92.Mike Buckley 42.3Monday, August 17, 2009
93.Daniel Raymon 42.3Monday, October 20, 2008
94.Jim Hilger 42.5Thursday, May 20, 2010
95.Patrick Merrell 43.0Tuesday, July 10, 2001
96.Edward Sessa 43.1Monday, September 10, 2007
97.Harvey Estes 43.3Wednesday, December 29, 1993
98.Elizabeth C. Gorski 43.5Monday, July 31, 1995
99.Margaret Seikel 43.8Wednesday, September 2, 2020
100.Kyle Mahowald 44.1Monday, March 22, 2004
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