A Crossword Puzzle Editor Minted at Penn State
Wall Street Journal crossword editor Mike Shenk, who tends to a wide variety of additional clients through his small company Puzzability, sometimes likes to use pseudonymous bylines. Earlier this fall for example, he signed a puzzle with the pen name Colin Gale, an anagram nod to his Alma Mater Penn State and the school’s student newspaper The Daily Collegian.
It was at Penn State in the late 1970s that Shenk first proved his puzzle mettle. Per a nice profile by current PSU student Carley Mossbrook, it was that prolific student output that caught the attention of Games magazine editor Will Shortz in 1981:
[At Penn State], Shenk went on to make five daily puzzles each week over the next three years.
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