From 2002: Henry Hook is a brilliant and oddly beloved misanthrope, administering exquisite torture through dozens of puzzle books and syndicated crosswords.
Halfway through a particularly inept puzzle, Rosen’s red pen suddenly stopped moving. “For the ‘God of sex,’ this one answered ‘Iris,’ ” he said, smiling wistfully. “Who knows? Maybe she is.”
“Here, let me do this,” Ripstein says. “I type over a hundred words a minute.” While the others hold the scroll against a brick wall, she positions her fingers on the imaginary keys. She looks to see which letters the numbers correspond to, then calls them out in sequence. But she keeps getting flustered and losing her place. Hook finally steps in. “I don’t see why you’re bothering with that,” he says. “I’ve got the letters memorized: Q W E R T Y U I O P A S D F G H . . .
Still, at first Hook could hardly afford to rebel. His father died when he was seventeen, leaving him with his mother to support, and though he earned a degree in mathematics, he never seriously considered using it. For years, he spent his nights constructing puzzles at fifty dollars each and his days unloading trucks at the back of a drugstore.
But the portico is empty. As everyone scatters to search the rest of the block, two members of the black team wander past, already headed for the next clue. It takes Hook’s team another ten minutes to find what they’re looking for: a large Ziploc bag hidden behind a slab of the Berlin Wall. Inside the bag is a page of rubbings taken from a sequence of small bronze reliefs of New York landmarks; one of the landmarks is conspicuously missing.
In Stamford, Ripstein got off to an early lead, and managed to dash off “aristas” and “bhang” . But her strategy was unorthodox. Instead of starting at the upper left corner and working her way around the puzzle, she jumped immediately to the right side. That left her stranded without 1 across , a ten-letter answer on which much depended. Jordan took the standard path, built on previously placed letters, and soon surged ahead.
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