About the Puzzle Constructor
Eight letters: Prolific puzzlemaker
Tom McCoy started mapping crosswords on graph paper during his senior year in high school. Now a third-year graduate student in cognitive science at Johns Hopkins, McCoy has had 33 puzzles published in The New York Times and is the mastermind behind the university's end-of-year crossword.
Ah, ah, ah. You didn't say the magic word.
Ronald J. Daniels, President