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Tag Archives: Will Shortz
Get Ready for the 2017 Orca Awards with This Puzzle Featuring Clue of the Year Nominees!
The 2017 Orca Awards will arrive here on Sunday, March 4. That’s just three weeks away! Squee! For the seventh straight year we will honor outstanding achievement in crossword construction and editing as we look back on many of your … Continue reading
The 2016 Orca Awards
Everyone’s favorite 8,000-word post is back! It’s time for the (now sixth!) annual Orca Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in crossword construction and editing throughout several categories in 2016. For the past two years the Orcas have been spread out over … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Eaton-Salners, Andrew J. Ries, Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Bruce Haight, Byron Walden, C.C. Burnikel, Dan Schoenholz, David Phillips, David Steinberg, Erik Agard, Evan Birnholz, Francis Heaney, Frank Longo, Jeff Chen, Jeremy Newton, Joon Pahk, Josh Knapp, Kathy Wienberg, Matt Gaffney, Mike Shenk, Patrick Berry, Paul Coulter, Pete Muller, Peter A. Collins, Peter Gordon, Robyn Weintraub, Sam Trabucco, Will Shortz, Zhouqin Burnikel
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The 2014 Orca Awards – Individual Honors
On this, the penultimate day of Orcas Week, we present the Bob Klahn Award for Most Outstanding Clue and the Margaret Farrar Constructor of the Year Award. Tomorrow, of course, is the final Orca for Best Crossword. Here’s how Orcas … Continue reading
The 2013 Orca Awards
The Orcas are back! Budget cuts forced us to scrap the fancy-shmancy awards ceremony this year. (Now we’ll just have to imagine what Henry Hook would have worn on the black-and-white carpet.) We had a cute little magic show all planned … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Shechtman, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Dan Schoenholz, David Sullivan, Finn Vigeland, Francis Heaney, Frank Longo, Ian Livengood, Jeff Chen, Joon Pahk, Kevin G. Der, Lynn Lempel, Marti DuGuay-Carpenter, Matt Gaffney, Matt Jones, Merl Reagle, Mike Shenk, Patrick Berry, Patrick Blindauer, Pete Muller, Peter Gordon, Rich Norris, Stanley Newman, Tom Pepper, Trip Payne, Will Shortz
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