Stan Newman

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Stanley Newman has been the editor of the Newsday Sunday Crossword since March, 1988, and editor of the Newsday daily Crossword since January, 1992. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brooklyn College, where he majored in mathematics, and received a master’s degree in statistics from Rutgers University. Stan's pre-crossword careers included stints as a college teacher, consumer market researcher and Wall Street bond analyst. A crossword solver since childhood, Stan's entry into the puzzle business came about as a direct result of his winning three crossword tournaments in 1982, including the first U.S. Open Crossword Championship. He started a crossword newsletter in 1983, serving as its editor and publisher, and began creating crosswords for magazines soon thereafter. He also began publishing books of his crosswords. After being ''involuntarily retired'' from Wall Street in the aftermath of the 1987 crash, Stan plunged into crosswords full-time, as a puzzle creator, editor, publisher, syndicator, and mail-order bookseller. Newsday was his first major client. Today, the Newsday Crossword is syndicated worldwide to over 200 daily, Sunday and Internet newspapers. As a puzzle creator, Stan's work has appeared regularly in Prevention, People, Sport and Business Week magazines. And as a puzzle solver, he holds the world's record, set in 1996 under Guinness Book conditions, for the fastest completion of a New York Times crossword: 2 minutes, 14 seconds.

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