About Jack Shepherd
Word puzzles, cryptics, and general word nerdery
If you like words, wordplay, the history of words, language, grammar, and word puzzles, please join me on this adventure. I’m going to teach you how to do cryptic crossword puzzles — trust me, they’re incredibly fun and anyone can do them! I’m also going to be writing about word puzzles in general; interesting things about words; and probably a good deal about some of words’ naughty little friends, like punctuation marks and grammatical categories, so there will be plenty in here to excite and titillate even the cryptic-skeptical.
Who’s writing this thing?
I’m Jack Shepherd, and I’ve been writing online since the blog era. Once upon a time I was the editorial director at BuzzFeed.