Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortz, who's been the paper's crossword editor for more than 30 years, revealed that he’s in rehabilitation after suffering a ...

PLEASANTVILLE, NEW YORK -- Will Shortz is a puzzle master by day and a table-tennis fanatic by night. He has been the New York Times crossword editor and NPR's puzzle master for over three decades.

Shortz is back, tell a friend. By Everdeen Mason A dedicated cruciverbalist, she won the first American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 1978. She went on to test and proofread puzzles for The New York ...

Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times and NPR’s “puzzlemaster” for more than three decades, had a stroke last month and has spent the last several weeks in ...

Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times crossword and “puzzlemaster” on NPR, is recovering from a stroke he suffered on Feb. 4. Shortz, 71, announced the news Sunday in a recorded segment on NPR’s ...

Mr. Shortz, who has been with The Times for three decades and also hosts NPR’s “Sunday Puzzle,” said on Sunday that he had a stroke in February but was recovering. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Will Shortz, ...