See the 8 answer words debuted by David Maymudes.
D | E | S | P | A | I | R | D | R | J | S | E | P | T | O | R | M | E | |||
E | N | C | A | R | T | A | Y | O | O | T | R | I | O | N | E | I | L | |||
E | G | O | T | R | I | P | S | K | Y | R | I | N | G | C | Y | C | L | E | ||
R | E | P | R | E | S | S | Y | O | U | R | L | U | C | K | H | M | O | N | G | |
L | E | I | A | H | E | N | I | O | C | I | S | E | V | E | Y | |||||
O | R | I | E | L | S | D | A | K | S | E | A | L | E | |||||||
E | M | I | T | R | E | L | A | T | E | T | O | T | H | E | P | A | R | T | Y | |
V | I | D | A | S | T | A | L | K | H | U | H | D | O | U | G | I | E | |||
E | X | A | C | T | S | T | A | I | N | T | E | A | L | R | I | L | E | |||
T | O | P | I | T | E | M | U | N | I | T | A | R | D | S | ||||||
A | I | R | R | E | S | E | N | T | P | A | C | K | I | N | G | L | A | H | ||
T | H | E | L | O | R | A | X | S | A | R | A | G | I | S | ||||||
P | A | C | E | F | L | E | D | L | I | M | O | S | F | E | L | I | X | |||
A | V | E | N | G | E | C | E | O | M | E | R | I | T | C | O | N | E | |||
R | E | S | T | O | C | K | S | A | N | D | B | O | N | D | S | O | W | N | S | |
S | O | R | T | A | T | Y | R | A | I | C | A | H | N | |||||||
I | M | P | G | O | T | H | O | Y | S | T | A | E | D | A | M | |||||
N | O | O | S | E | R | E | T | U | R | N | T | H | E | T | A | B | L | E | S | |
S | N | O | W | S | K | I | E | R | U | I | E | S | I | D | E | O | N | E | ||
U | G | L | I | I | N | L | A | N | N | E | A | R | T | S | A | L | E | |||
M | O | S | T | R | A | S | P | S | O | L | R | O | O | T | F | O | R |
Sophia Maymudes is a senior at Carleton College in Minnesota, studying computer science and math. This is her third crossword for The Times. Her father, David Maymudes, is a senior staff software engineer for Google in Seattle. After years of being Sophia's test solver, he decided he wanted to construct, too.
They write: "We presume there have been other father/daughter co-constructors, but we were wondering if there have been any others where the daughter was the one who introduced the father to constructing." I can think of just one other father/daughter pair, from 1998. I believe this is the first one in which the daughter is the veteran puzzlemaker.