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 ...

Reagle’s “Crossword Puzzle” has run in the Sunday Datebook, known as the Pink section, since 2008. Here is a typical letter, from reader Thomas Wood of Novato: “Here’s to Merl Reagle ...

Puzzle constructor Merl Reagle begins his weekly stint as The Washington Post's crossword master on Sunday. "There's a fine line between entertainment and torture," Reagle once wrote. "I ought to ...

Sunday morning and Merl Reagle were truly looked forward to all week. Doing his puzzles was a tradition that lasted for years. When I saw that he had passed away, I felt such sadness, as if I had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...