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- Birth nameMerl Harry Reagle
- Merl Reagle was born on January 5, 1950 in Audubon, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Crosswits (1987), Couch Potatoes (1989) and Wordplay (2006). He was married to Marie Haley. He died on August 22, 2015 in Tampa, Florida, USA.
- SpouseMarie Haley(? - August 22, 2015) (his death)
- Self-syndicates his crossword puzzles, which appear in 12 papers, including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Hartford Courant. He makes six figures a year by leveraging his name and retaining the rights to his puzzles, which he resells in book form under his own imprint, PuzzleWorks.
- Sold his first crossword to the New York Times when he was 16.
- He attended the University of Arizona, where he majored in journalism. He was a copy editor for the campus paper, and spent three years as a copy editor for the Arizona Daily Star.
- Creator of the weekly crossword puzzle in "The Washington Post Magazine" from 2008 until his death. His first puzzle appeared in the 6 April 2008 issue; his final puzzle appeared in the Arts & Style section of the 30 August 2015 issue of the newspaper, because the magazine was not published that week.
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