Manny Nosowsky

Manny Nosowsky (born January 1932, in San Francisco, CA) is a U.S. crossword puzzle creator.

A medical doctor by training, he retired from a San Francisco urology practice and, beginning in 1991,[1] has created crossword puzzles that have been published in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers.

On July 24, 1998, he set an early record by publishing a standard 15x15 daily crossword puzzle with only 21 black squares.

His puzzle "Double Digit Inflation" was the first to be published in the Wall Street Journal, which now has a crossword as a weekly feature.

[3] Hall's narrative sets the storyline, and in four of his novels, Nosowsky's puzzles drop clues for the reader.