How I Crossed Crosswords Part 3: Constructing a Crossword

David Ding
18 min readJan 1, 2024

It dawned upon me one day that I should construct a crossword puzzle. Exactly what piqued my interest is hard to describe in one word, but it goes something like this: after doing the New York Times and Universal daily crossword for over two years and having solved about 3000 puzzles, I wanted to create one. In the first part of my crossword journey, I described how I encountered this…

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David Ding

Senior Software Engineer @MathWorks. #Crossword constructor and loves writing blogs. Into #MagicTheGathering and #ThisWeeksRiddler/#ThisWeeksFiddler. He/Him