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Crossword Innovators

Modern Era constructor debut word counts sorted by count

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

Only Modern 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	1281	101
5.	David J. Kahn	1237	189
6.	Joe DiPietro	1236	138
7.	Brendan Emmett Quigley	1164	177
8.	Rich Norris	1115	189
9.	Randolph Ross	1050	115
10.	Jeff Chen	944	161
11.	Nancy Salomon	908	185
12.	Frank Longo	686	69
13.	Cathy Allis	657	84
14.	David Steinberg	654	110
15.	Alan Arbesfeld	618	123
16.	Mark Diehl	592	66
17.	Peter A. Collins	587	120
18.	Erik Agard	555	79
19.	Peter Gordon	529	109
20.	Matt Gaffney	524	58
21.	Harvey Estes	522	116
22.	Jim Page	505	70
23.	Paula Gamache	504	89
24.	Fred Piscop	502	106
25.	Joe Krozel	497	87
26.	Patrick Merrell	493	91
27.	Sam Ezersky	489	47
28.	Joel Fagliano	470	65
29.	Bob Klahn	465	60
30.	Martin Ashwood-Smith	456	80
31.	Robert H. Wolfe	436	60
32.	Richard Silvestri	430	84
33.	Barry C. Silk	402	92
34.	Will Nediger	398	52
35.	Jeremy Newton	388	28
36.	Kevin G. Der	382	42
37.	Nancy Nicholson Joline	379	48
38.	Zhouqin Burnikel	372	81
39.	Brad Wilber	354	60
40.	A. J. Santora	340	68
41.	Trip Payne	338	43
42.	Mike Nothnagel	333	50
43.	Lynn Lempel	331	100
44.	Ross Trudeau	314	54
45.	Matt Ginsberg	312	46
46.	Andrea Carla Michaels	311	87
47.	Patrick Blindauer	302	59
48.	Bruce Haight	297	63
	Bob Peoples	297	39
50.	Ian Livengood	294	55
51.	Peter Wentz	293	40
52.	Sam Trabucco	291	26
53.	David Quarfoot	290	41
54.	Natan Last	283	41
55.	Ryan McCarty	272	30
56.	Doug Peterson	263	54
	Timothy Polin	263	55
58.	Alex Eaton-Salners	257	53
59.	Tom McCoy	253	35
60.	Charles M. Deber	252	20
	Michael Shteyman	252	51
62.	Robyn Weintraub	247	50
63.	Samuel A. Donaldson	246	40
64.	Chuck Deodene	242	42
65.	Eric Berlin	239	42
66.	Tony Orbach	231	27
67.	Gregory E. Paul	230	116
68.	Randall J. Hartman	229	74
69.	Tracy Gray	228	37
70.	Victor Fleming	223	47
71.	John Guzzetta	220	40
72.	Caleb Madison	218	35
73.	Sherry O. Blackard	216	53
74.	Henry Hook	211	25
	Bryant White	211	29
76.	Matthew Stock	203	30
77.	Tim Croce	200	33
78.	Ed Early	195	53
	Frances Hansen	195	40
	Christina Iverson	195	31
81.	Paolo Pasco	193	27
82.	Damon J. Gulczynski	189	48
83.	Finn Vigeland	187	21
84.	David Levinson Wilk	182	26
85.	Andy Kravis	180	26
86.	Edward Sessa	179	44
87.	John Farmer	176	33
	Karen M. Tracey	176	32
89.	Kameron Austin Collins	173	24
90.	Dan Schoenholz	172	29
91.	Gary Cee	163	40
92.	Julian Lim	162	26
	Wayne Robert Williams	162	38
94.	Adam Wagner	157	23
95.	Sarah Keller	156	53
96.	Trenton Charlson	152	37
97.	Raymond Hamel	151	27
98.	James Mulhern	150	25
99.	Mary Lou Guizzo	149	29
100.	Dana Motley	148	31
101.	Michael Hawkins	147	24
	Jacob Stulberg	147	34
103.	Victor Barocas	146	20
104.	joon pahk	145	25
105.	Joe Deeney	143	23
	Andrew Ries	143	26
107.	Brooke Husic	142	21
	Sid Sivakumar	142	18
	Andrew Zhou	142	18
110.	Ned White	141	25
111.	Dean Niles	137	15
	Lou Sabin	137	29
113.	Richard Hughes	136	35
	Ashish Vengsarkar	136	19
115.	Martin Schneider	135	13
116.	Lee Glickstein	134	25
117.	Pete Muller	133	18
118.	Tyler Hinman	131	22
	Josh Knapp	131	24
120.	Stephanie Spadaccini	126	36
121.	Myles Callum	125	22
	Derrick Niederman	125	10
123.	Michael Lieberman	123	20
124.	Brandon Koppy	121	20
125.	Fran Sabin	120	25
126.	Richard Chisholm	119	32
127.	David Woolf	118	17
128.	David Kwong	117	24
129.	Michael Ashley	115	11
	Daniel A. Finan	115	15
	Rafael Musa	115	17
132.	Evan Kalish	114	19
133.	Rand H. Burns	113	21
	Simeon Seigel	113	16
135.	Jonathan Schmalzbach	112	31
136.	Gerald R. Ferguson	110	22
	Michael Torch	110	19
	Dave Tuller	110	14
139.	David Phillips	108	20
140.	Craig Kasper	107	15
	Lois Sidway	107	18
	Jeffrey Wechsler	107	19
143.	Kristian House	106	22
144.	Adam Aaronson	105	14
	Rebecca Goldstein	105	20
146.	John Lieb	104	20
147.	Alex K. Justin	103	14
	Allan E. Parrish	103	39
	Bill Zais	103	15
150.	John Kugelman	102	10
	Greg Staples	102	25
152.	Nelson Hardy	100	11
	Bruce Venzke	100	19
154.	Gilbert H. Ludwig	98	18
155.	Charles E. Gersch	97	17
	Grant Thackray	97	13
157.	Kyle T. Dolan	95	17
158.	Daniel C. Bryant	94	9
159.	Mel Rosen	93	14
160.	Janet R. Bender	92	27
	Con Pederson	92	8
	Adam G. Perl	92	30
	Stella Zawistowski	92	21
164.	Caitlin Reid	91	16
165.	Ruth B. Margolin	89	15
	Sidney L. Robbins	89	50
	Carolyn W. Stewart	89	21
168.	Oliver Hill	88	16
	Aimee Lucido	88	17
	Tom Pepper	88	16
171.	Todd Gross	87	18
	Katie Hale	87	11
	Nancy Kavanaugh	87	26
	Andrew Kingsley	87	23
	Stanley Newman	87	23
	John Westwig	87	9
177.	Ethan Cooper	86	15
	Nancy S. Ross	86	22
179.	Kyle Mahowald	85	18
180.	Kevan Choset	84	27
	Kevin Christian	84	19
182.	Adam Cohen	82	19
	Francis Heaney	82	10
	Alex Vratsanos	82	19
185.	Barbara Lin	81	16
186.	Jim Hyres	80	21
	Michael Schlossberg	80	14
188.	Freddie Cheng	79	17
	Thomas W. Schier	79	17
190.	Adam Fromm	78	8
	Jules P. Markey	78	22
	Todd McClary	78	12
	Michael Vuolo	78	14
194.	Ashton Anderson	77	14
	Emily Carroll	77	19
196.	Raymond C. Young	76	8
197.	Seth A. Abel	75	14
	Wyna Liu	75	9
	Hemant Mehta	75	8
	Merl Reagle	75	7
	Matthew Sewell	75	12
202.	Karen Young Bonin	74	11
203.	Christopher Hurt	73	11
204.	Hoang-Kim Vu	72	12
205.	Ernie Furtado	71	12
	Kate Hawkins	71	16
	Daniel Raymon	71	17
208.	Derek Bowman	70	10
	Chandi Deitmer	70	8
	Mark Feldman	70	11
	Jason Flinn	70	14
	Jake Halperin	70	10
	Ben Tausig	70	9
214.	Milo Beckman	69	10
	Roy Leban	69	13
216.	Kelsey Blakley	68	8
	Michael S. Maurer	68	19
218.	Amanda Chung	67	13
	Karl Ni	67	13
220.	Gareth Bain	66	15
221.	Kelly Clark	65	15
	Rich Proulx	65	10
	Lewis Rothlein	65	10
224.	John R. Conrad	64	11
225.	Norman S. Wizer	63	14
226.	David Liben-Nowell	62	13
227.	Peter Abide	61	8
	Bernice Gordon	61	21
	Sophia Maymudes	61	10
230.	Howard Barkin	60	12
	Michael Blake	60	14
232.	Levi Denham	59	10
	Laura Taylor Kinnel	59	6
	Corey Rubin	59	8
235.	Adrian Johnson	58	10
	Daniel Larsen	58	11
	Brian Thomas	58	14
	Xan Vongsathorn	58	9
	John Wolting	58	14
	Yacob Yonas	58	11
241.	George Barany	57	10
	Garrett Chalfin	57	9
	Gene Newman	57	15
244.	Billy Bratton	56	10
	Sam Buchbinder	56	12
	Don Gagliardo	56	12
	Alan Olschwang	56	10
248.	William I. Johnston	55	15
	Patrick Jordan	55	16
	Pamela Amick Klawitter	55	7
	Mike Shenk	55	7
	Susan Harrington Smith	55	10
253.	Alex Bajcz	54	7
	Yaakov Bendavid	54	6
	Robert Dillman	54	16
	John Lampkin	54	11
257.	Mike Buckley	53	13
	Shannon Burns	53	10
	Jim Hilger	53	15
260.	Holden Baker	52	16
	Spencer Leach	52	6
	Jacob McDermott	52	11
	Randy Sowell	52	22
264.	Christopher Adams	51	8
	Tracy Bennett	51	6
	Ella Dershowitz	51	12
	Robert Malinow	51	9
	Kurt Mueller	51	7
	Stu Ockman	51	13
270.	Trent H. Evans	50	11
	Susan Gelfand	50	17
272.	Daniel Bodily	48	13
	Mark Danna	48	6
	Olivia Mitra Framke	48	12
	Daniel Grinberg	48	8
	Chris A. McGlothlin	48	7
	Amanda Rafkin	48	10
278.	Evan Birnholz	47	8
	Jim Peredo	47	9
	Michael Sharp	47	7
	Norma Steinberg	47	17
282.	Robert W. Harris	46	7
	Roland Huget	46	12
	Daniel Mauer	46	7
	Mark Elliot Skolsky	46	13
	Nam Jin Yoon	46	9
287.	Dan Feyer	45	4
	Margaret Seikel	45	9
	Brad Wiegmann	45	9
290.	James R. Leeds	44	8
	Bob Sefick	44	8
292.	Kareem Ayas	43	6
	David Distenfeld	43	7
	Neville Fogarty	43	12
	John Greenman	43	12
	Paul Hunsberger	43	8
	Mel Taub	43	10
	Erica Hsiung Wojcik	43	6
299.	William S. Cotter	42	7
	Joseph Greenbaum	42	5
	Elizabeth A. Long	42	13
	Blake Slonecker	42	8
	Nancy Stark	42	7
	Bill Thompson	42	10
305.	Andrew Chaikin	41	4
	Rachel Fabi	41	8
	Scott Hogan	41	4
	Evan Mahnken	41	11
	Hal Moore	41	10
310.	Evans Clinchy	40	7
	Lloyd E. Pollet	40	3
312.	Jem Burch	39	7
	Malaika Handa	39	7
	Daniel Kantor	39	13
	Alfio Micci	39	11
	Robert Ryan	39	3
	Arthur S. Verdesca	39	14
	Leonard Williams	39	8
319.	Chase Dittrich	38	9
	Jonah Kagan	38	6
	Sharon Klahn	38	3
	Gary Larson	38	9
	Gary J. Whitehead	38	15
324.	Diane C. Baldwin	37	8
	Alex Boisvert	37	11
	Scott Earl	37	5
	John Hawksley	37	4
	Sarah Sinclair	37	8
329.	Bill Ballard	36	10
	Caleb Emmons	36	6
	Steve Kahn	36	7
	Zachary David Levy	36	8
	Kevin McCann	36	7
	Stephen McCarthy	36	4
	Jean O'Conor	36	7
	David Poole	36	9
	Daniel R. Stark	36	16
	Jeff Stillman	36	9
	Alan Jay Weiss	36	7
340.	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano	35	8
	Royce Ferguson	35	4
	Jeremy Horwitz	35	7
	Ellen Leuschner	35	9
	Aaron M. Rosenberg	35	6
345.	Peter Broda	34	3
	James E. Buell	34	6
	Gail Grabowski	34	13
	Taylor Johnson	34	6
	Rich Katz	34	6
	Robert Logan	34	5
	Herre Schouwerwou	34	8
	Zoe Wheeler	34	6
	Michael Wiesenberg	34	5
	Leslie Young	34	6
355.	Marjorie Berg	33	9
	Ricky Cruz	33	7
	John Ewbank	33	6
	Nick Grivas	33	9
	David Pringle	33	9
	Kathy Wienberg	33	8
361.	Paul Coulter	32	7
	Michael J. Doran	32	7
	Juliana Tringali Golden	32	6
	Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr.	32	3
	David Ainslie Macleod	32	7
	John Scott Marrone	32	7
	Kurt Mengel	32	10
	Meghan Morris	32	5
	Claire Rimkus	32	7
	Gary Steinmehl	32	9
371.	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
	Jeffrey Martinovic	31	10
	Jennifer Nutt	31	9
379.	Jessie Trudeau	30	5
	Luke Vaughn	30	4

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