What is Merl Reagle?
{{Infobox person | name = Merl Reagle | image = Merl Reagle, crossword constructor.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1950|1|5}} | birth_place = [[Audubon, New Jersey]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|8|22|1950|1|8}} | death_place = [[Tampa, Florida]] | occupation = Crossword constructor | spouse = Marie Haley | parents = Sam and Evelyn Reagle<ref name=crazy>{{cite web |url=http://www.sundaycrosswords.com/puzzlearticle.htm|title=How I Drive You Crazy: Confessions of a Crossword Constructor|last=Reagle|first=Merl|work=[[Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=February 1997 |access-date=28 November 2012}}</ref> }} '''Merl Reagle''' (January 5, 1950 – August 22, 2015) was an [[United States|American]] [[crossword]] constructor. He was best known for his family-friendly themes. For 30 years, he constructed a puzzle every Sunday for the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' (originally the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]''), which he [[print syndication|syndicated]] to more than 50 Sunday newspapers,<ref name=tampa>{{cite web |url=http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article1207710.ece |title=What's Merl Reagle reading? |first=Piper |last=Castillo |date=1 January 2012 |access-date=28 November 2012 |work=[[Tampa Bay Times]] }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> including the ''[[Washington Post]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', the ''[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', the ''[[Seattle Times]]'', ''[[The Plain Dealer]]'', the ''[[Hartford Courant]]'', the ''[[New York Observer]]'', and the ''[[Arizona Daily Star]]''. Reagle died August 22, 2015, after being hospitalized two days earlier for [[acute pancreatitis]] in [[Tampa]], [[Florida]], aged 65.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/crossword-creator-merl-reagle-dies-in-tampa-at-age-65/2242415 |title= Crossword creator Merl Reagle dies in Tampa at age 65 |author= Colette Bancroft |work= [[Tampa Bay Times]] |date= August 22, 2015 |access-date= August 22, 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{ref