The Sunday Story: Meeting the Puzzlemaster
Today on The Sunday Story host Ayesha Rascoe heads to Westchester County in upstate New York to meet with The New York Times Crossword editor Will Shortz. The two sit down at the table tennis center Will owns and talk about how he became the Puzzlemaster on Weekend Edition Sunday, his love for all things puzzles and how recently, in his seventies, he has finally found love in his personal life as well.
This podcast episode was produced by Andrew Mambo and edited by Jennifer Schmidt. Our engineer was Maggie Luthar.
And a special thanks this week to Ayda Pourasad and Julie Rogers of NPR's research team for finding archival audio of Will Shortz's early days with NPR.
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