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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	1322	104
5.	David J. Kahn	1242	192
6.	Joe DiPietro	1238	139
7.	Brendan Emmett Quigley	1173	178
8.	Rich Norris	1115	189
9.	Randolph Ross	1059	116
10.	Jeff Chen	966	166
11.	Nancy Salomon	908	185
12.	Frank Longo	686	69
13.	David Steinberg	669	111
14.	Cathy Allis	657	84
15.	Mark Diehl	619	69
16.	Alan Arbesfeld	618	123
17.	Peter A. Collins	593	122
18.	Erik Agard	586	83
19.	Sam Ezersky	534	51
20.	Peter Gordon	529	109
21.	Matt Gaffney	524	58
22.	Harvey Estes	522	116
23.	Jim Page	505	70
24.	Paula Gamache	504	89
25.	Fred Piscop	502	106
26.	Joe Krozel	497	87
27.	Patrick Merrell	493	91
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.	Jeremy Newton	411	31
34.	Barry C. Silk	402	92
35.	Will Nediger	398	52
36.	Kevin G. Der	382	42
37.	Zhouqin Burnikel	379	84
	Nancy Nicholson Joline	379	48
39.	Brad Wilber	354	60
40.	A. J. Santora	340	68
41.	Trip Payne	338	43
42.	Lynn Lempel	333	102
	Mike Nothnagel	333	50
44.	Andrea Carla Michaels	326	93
45.	Ross Trudeau	314	54
46.	Matt Ginsberg	312	46
47.	Patrick Blindauer	302	59
48.	Ian Livengood	298	56
49.	Bruce Haight	297	63
	Bob Peoples	297	39
51.	Peter Wentz	293	40
52.	Natan Last	292	42
	Ryan McCarty	292	33
54.	Sam Trabucco	291	26
55.	David Quarfoot	290	41
56.	Doug Peterson	276	57
57.	Alex Eaton-Salners	269	55
58.	Timothy Polin	263	55
59.	Robyn Weintraub	262	52
60.	Tom McCoy	257	37
61.	Samuel A. Donaldson	256	41
62.	Michael Shteyman	252	51
63.	Adam Wagner	250	33
64.	Charles M. Deber	243	20
65.	Chuck Deodene	242	42
66.	Eric Berlin	239	42
67.	Christina Iverson	235	41
68.	Tony Orbach	231	27
69.	Gregory E. Paul	230	116
70.	Randall J. Hartman	229	74
71.	Tracy Gray	228	37
72.	Victor Fleming	223	47
	John Guzzetta	223	42
74.	Matthew Stock	219	33
75.	Caleb Madison	218	35
76.	Sherry O. Blackard	216	53
77.	Henry Hook	211	25
78.	Bryant White	210	29
79.	John Kugelman	207	21
80.	Tim Croce	200	33
81.	Kameron Austin Collins	198	27
82.	Ed Early	195	53
	Frances Hansen	195	40
84.	Paolo Pasco	193	27
85.	Damon J. Gulczynski	189	48
86.	Finn Vigeland	187	21
87.	Rafael Musa	185	27
88.	David Levinson Wilk	182	26
89.	Andy Kravis	180	26
	Michael Lieberman	180	26
91.	Edward Sessa	179	44
92.	John Farmer	176	33
	Karen M. Tracey	176	32
94.	Dan Schoenholz	172	29
95.	Rebecca Goldstein	170	29
96.	Gary Cee	165	41
97.	Trenton Charlson	162	38
	Julian Lim	162	26
	Wayne Robert Williams	162	38
100.	Brandon Koppy	158	22
101.	Sarah Keller	156	53
102.	Raymond Hamel	151	27
103.	Victor Barocas	150	21
	James Mulhern	150	25
105.	Joe Deeney	149	25
	Mary Lou Guizzo	149	29
	Simeon Seigel	149	21
	Jacob Stulberg	149	35
109.	Dana Motley	148	31
110.	Michael Hawkins	147	24
111.	joon pahk	145	25
112.	Andrew Ries	143	26
113.	Brooke Husic	142	21
	Sid Sivakumar	142	18
	Andrew Zhou	142	18
116.	Derrick Niederman	141	12
	Ned White	141	25
118.	Dean Niles	137	15
	Lou Sabin	137	29
120.	Richard Hughes	136	35
	Josh Knapp	136	25
	Ashish Vengsarkar	136	19
123.	Martin Schneider	135	13
124.	Adam Aaronson	134	19
	Lee Glickstein	134	25
126.	Pete Muller	133	18
127.	Tyler Hinman	131	22
	David Kwong	131	25
129.	Stephanie Spadaccini	126	36
130.	Myles Callum	125	22
131.	Fran Sabin	120	25
132.	Richard Chisholm	119	32
133.	David Woolf	118	17
134.	Michael Ashley	115	11
	Daniel A. Finan	115	15
136.	Adrian Johnson	114	18
	Evan Kalish	114	19
138.	Rand H. Burns	113	21
139.	Jonathan Schmalzbach	112	31
140.	Kyle T. Dolan	111	19
141.	Gerald R. Ferguson	110	22
	Michael Torch	110	19
	Dave Tuller	110	14
144.	David Phillips	108	20
145.	Craig Kasper	107	15
	Lois Sidway	107	18
	Jeffrey Wechsler	107	19
148.	Kristian House	106	22
149.	John Lieb	104	20
150.	Alex K. Justin	103	14
	Barbara Lin	103	20
	Allan E. Parrish	103	39
	Bill Zais	103	15
154.	Michael Schlossberg	102	17
	Greg Staples	102	25
156.	Ruth B. Margolin	101	16
157.	Nelson Hardy	100	11
	Bruce Venzke	100	19
159.	Gilbert H. Ludwig	98	18
160.	Charles E. Gersch	97	17
	Aimee Lucido	97	19
	Grant Thackray	97	13
163.	Hemant Mehta	96	10
	Stella Zawistowski	96	22
165.	Daniel C. Bryant	94	9
166.	Mel Rosen	93	14
167.	Janet R. Bender	92	27
	Con Pederson	92	8
	Adam G. Perl	92	30
170.	Caitlin Reid	91	16
171.	Sidney L. Robbins	89	50
	Carolyn W. Stewart	89	21
173.	Oliver Hill	88	16
	Tom Pepper	88	16
175.	Todd Gross	87	18
	Katie Hale	87	11
	Nancy Kavanaugh	87	26
	Andrew Kingsley	87	23
	Stanley Newman	87	23
	John Westwig	87	9
181.	Ethan Cooper	86	15
	Nancy S. Ross	86	22
183.	Freddie Cheng	85	19
	Kevin Christian	85	20
	Kyle Mahowald	85	18
186.	Kevan Choset	84	27
	Kate Hawkins	84	19
188.	Adam Cohen	82	19
	Francis Heaney	82	10
	Alex Vratsanos	82	19
191.	Chandi Deitmer	81	9
192.	Jim Hyres	80	21
193.	Thomas W. Schier	79	17
194.	Adam Fromm	78	8
	Jules P. Markey	78	22
	Todd McClary	78	12
	Michael Vuolo	78	14
198.	Ashton Anderson	77	14
	Emily Carroll	77	19
200.	Raymond C. Young	76	8
201.	Seth A. Abel	75	14
	Wyna Liu	75	9
	Merl Reagle	75	7
	Matthew Sewell	75	12
205.	Karen Young Bonin	74	11
	Daniel Raymon	74	18
207.	Christopher Hurt	73	11
	Hoang-Kim Vu	73	13
209.	Ernie Furtado	71	12
	Daniel Grinberg	71	10
211.	Derek Bowman	70	10
	Mark Feldman	70	11
	Jason Flinn	70	14
	Jake Halperin	70	10
	Ben Tausig	70	9
216.	Milo Beckman	69	10
	Garrett Chalfin	69	10
	Roy Leban	69	13
219.	Kelsey Blakley	68	8
	Rachel Fabi	68	10
	Michael S. Maurer	68	19
222.	Kareem Ayas	67	10
	Daniel Bodily	67	17
	Amanda Chung	67	13
	Karl Ni	67	13
226.	Gareth Bain	66	15
227.	Kelly Clark	65	15
	Katie Hoody	65	9
	Rich Proulx	65	10
	Lewis Rothlein	65	10
231.	John R. Conrad	64	11
232.	Spencer Leach	63	8
	Norman S. Wizer	63	14
234.	David Liben-Nowell	62	13
235.	Peter Abide	61	8
	Tracy Bennett	61	8
	Bernice Gordon	61	21
	Sophia Maymudes	61	10
239.	Howard Barkin	60	12
	Michael Blake	60	14
241.	Levi Denham	59	10
	Laura Taylor Kinnel	59	6
	Jacob McDermott	59	12
	Corey Rubin	59	8
245.	Daniel Larsen	58	11
	Brian Thomas	58	14
	Xan Vongsathorn	58	9
	John Wolting	58	14
	Yacob Yonas	58	11
250.	George Barany	57	10
	Malaika Handa	57	9
	Gene Newman	57	15
253.	Billy Bratton	56	10
	Sam Buchbinder	56	12
	Don Gagliardo	56	12
	Alan Olschwang	56	10
257.	Scott Hogan	55	7
	William I. Johnston	55	15
	Patrick Jordan	55	16
	Pamela Amick Klawitter	55	7
	Mike Shenk	55	7
	Blake Slonecker	55	10
	Susan Harrington Smith	55	10
264.	Alex Bajcz	54	7
	Yaakov Bendavid	54	6
	Ella Dershowitz	54	13
	Robert Dillman	54	16
	Neville Fogarty	54	14
	John Lampkin	54	11
	Zachary David Levy	54	10
271.	Mike Buckley	53	13
	Shannon Burns	53	10
	Rena Cohen	53	9
	Jim Hilger	53	15
	Erica Hsiung Wojcik	53	9
276.	Holden Baker	52	16
	Randy Sowell	52	22
	Brad Wiegmann	52	12
279.	Christopher Adams	51	8
	John Ewbank	51	10
	Robert Malinow	51	9
	Jeffrey Martinovic	51	14
	Kurt Mueller	51	7
	Stu Ockman	51	13
285.	Trent H. Evans	50	11
	Susan Gelfand	50	17
287.	Mark Danna	48	6
	Olivia Mitra Framke	48	12
	Chris A. McGlothlin	48	7
	Amanda Rafkin	48	10
	Margaret Seikel	48	10
292.	Evan Birnholz	47	8
	Gary Larson	47	12
	Jim Peredo	47	9
	Michael Sharp	47	7
	Norma Steinberg	47	17
297.	Robert W. Harris	46	7
	Roland Huget	46	12
	Rich Katz	46	9
	Daniel Mauer	46	7
	Hal Moore	46	11
	Mark Elliot Skolsky	46	13
	Nam Jin Yoon	46	9
304.	Dan Feyer	45	4
	Sarah Sinclair	45	10
306.	James R. Leeds	44	8
	Bob Sefick	44	8
308.	David Distenfeld	43	7
	Royce Ferguson	43	5
	John Greenman	43	12
	Paul Hunsberger	43	8
	Mel Taub	43	10
313.	William S. Cotter	42	7
	Joseph Greenbaum	42	5
	Elizabeth A. Long	42	13
	Nancy Stark	42	7
	Bill Thompson	42	10
318.	Andrew Chaikin	41	4
	Chase Dittrich	41	10
	Evan Mahnken	41	11
321.	Evans Clinchy	40	7
	Juliana Tringali Golden	40	7
	Lloyd E. Pollet	40	3
	Jeff Stillman	40	10
325.	Jem Burch	39	7
	Ricky Cruz	39	8
	Gene Louise De Vera	39	6
	Daniel Kantor	39	13
	Alfio Micci	39	11
	Robert Ryan	39	3
	Arthur S. Verdesca	39	14
	Leonard Williams	39	8
333.	Joseph Gangi	38	8
	Jonah Kagan	38	6
	Sharon Klahn	38	3
	Robert Logan	38	6
	Carolyn Davies Lynch	38	5
	Gary J. Whitehead	38	15
339.	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano	37	9
	Diane C. Baldwin	37	8
	Alex Boisvert	37	11
	Scott Earl	37	5
	John Hawksley	37	4
	Dylan Schiff	37	5
345.	Bill Ballard	36	10
	Kevin Curry	36	10
	Caleb Emmons	36	6
	Steve Kahn	36	7
	Kevin McCann	36	7
	Stephen McCarthy	36	4
	Jean O'Conor	36	7
	David Poole	36	9
	Daniel R. Stark	36	16
	Alan Jay Weiss	36	7
355.	Paul Coulter	35	8
	Jeremy Horwitz	35	7
	Ryan Judge	35	6
	Ellen Leuschner	35	9
	Aaron M. Rosenberg	35	6
360.	Peter Broda	34	3
	James E. Buell	34	6
	Gail Grabowski	34	13
	Taylor Johnson	34	6
	Herre Schouwerwou	34	8
	Zoe Wheeler	34	6
	Michael Wiesenberg	34	5
	Leslie Young	34	6
368.	Marjorie Berg	33	9
	Dan Caprera	33	9
	Lance Enfinger	33	5
	Nick Grivas	33	9
	Kelly Morenus	33	5
	David Pringle	33	9
	Drew Schmenner	33	7
	Hannah Slovut	33	5
	Ginny Too	33	5
	Kathy Wienberg	33	8
378.	Michael J. Doran	32	7
	Hanh Huynh	32	8
	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
	Amie Walker	32	6
388.	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
	Jennifer Nutt	31	9
395.	Jessie Trudeau	30	5
	Luke Vaughn	30	4

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