Newsgroups: rec.puzzles.crosswords
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 23:34:42 GMT
Subject: R.I.P. Will Weng

I heard on the radio this morning that Will Weng passed away this
week.  He will be remembered fondly by a generation of New York Times
crosswords solvers.  He was in his eighties.

Knowing that his puzzles were a source of amusement to hospital
patients, he never defined CANCER as a disease in his puzzles.
According to NPR, he always clued it as a constellation or sign of the
Zodiac.  Unfortunately, he was unable to evade the disease in his own
life.  Weng, a long-time cigar smoker, died of throat cancer.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil