![]() ![]() So how did a 73-year-old Educational Policy geek, a retired professor at the College of Education at Florida State University, find himself in the pantheon of creators who have been published in the Times? ![]() And beyond that, into the Nirvana of crossword puzzling, Sande Milton has had not one, but two of his brilliantly brutal puzzles accepted by the New York Times and another by the Wall Street Journal. Milton, is not only a lover of crossword puzzles, he is also their “constructor,” a word that carries its own sense of elitism. Clues to words that must be selected and discarded, torqued and turned, and finally fit into the brilliant deceptions that the makers of crossword puzzles devise to bedevil their readers. But in fact, what has mesmerized Sande Milton since childhood is a kind of addiction. So, what are “they?” His children? Some pill he can’t get enough of? Not at all. He finds some of them “Zen-like,” some of them “horrifying.” But always, endlessly fascinating. ![]() “They’re never out of my mind.” Milton dreams about them. “I think about them every second of every day,” says Sande Milton. ![]()
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