Crossword puzzle creator Merl Reagle, whose Sunday puzzles for the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers were known for their wit, puns and wicked inventiveness, died Saturday in a Tampa, Fla ...

Merl Reagle, a beloved crossword puzzle maker whose work anchored the magazine of the San Francisco Examiner and later The Chronicle, died suddenly Saturday in his hometown of Tampa, Fla. For 30 ...

Merl Reagle, the imaginative and irrepressibly amusing verbal virtuoso who created the crossword puzzles published each week in The Washington Post Magazine and in many newspapers, died Aug. 22 in ...

NEW YORK — Merl Reagle, a playfully irreverent crossword puzzle constructor whose clues set off spirited cerebrations from fans rather than frustrated surrenders to dictionary arcana, died ...

M erl Reagle, the pun-ishingly inventive man who created crossword puzzles for 59 of his 65 years, died of acute pancreatitis in Tampa on Aug. 22.

For these readers, the obituary Sunday of puzzle master Merl Reagle, who died after a sudden illness last Saturday, hit them personally.

On its 100th anniversary, ‘King of the Crossword’ Merl Reagle spills on the strange origins of the puzzle—and his own favorite memories from decades of creating his own clues.

A celebration of life to honor the late Merl Reagle, a nationally syndicated crossword puzzle maker, drew about 125 people to the University of Tampa’s Vaughn Center on Sunday. Reagle, 65, died ...

Puzzle master Merl Reagle, who died Aug. 22 at the age of 65, is being honored and remembered for his enthusiasm, charm and brilliant mind, not only by friends and colleagues, but also by the ...

Merl Reagle, the imaginative and irrepressibly amusing verbal virtuoso who created the crossword puzzles published each week in The Washington Post Magazine and in many other newspapers, died Aug ...

Merl Reagle, a playfully irreverent crossword puzzle constructor whose clues set off spirited cerebrations from his fans rather than frustrated surrenders to dictionary arcana, died Saturday in ...