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Shorewood native’s crossword puzzle will be featured in Saturday’s Herald-News

Jeff Kremer’s puzzle, titled ‘Garage Sale Pitches,’ also featured in the Nov. 28 edition of The New York Times,

Jeff Kremer, a Shorewood native and Joliet West alumnus, will have an original crossword puzzle published in the New York Times on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. He is pictured with his wife Heather and children Hazel (left) and Calvin (right). (Photo provided)

By Denise M. Baran-Unland

Jeff Kremer started creating his own crossword puzzles during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to alleviate boredom.

Soon Kremer, a Shorewood native and Joliet West High School alumnus, began submitting his puzzles to The New York Times. The publication ran one of Kremer’s puzzles, “Garage Sale Pitches,” on Nov. 28.

Now readers of The Herald-News can work that puzzle, too, in this Saturday’s edition.

Kremer is creating and submitting puzzles to various publications, “so hopefully this isn’t a one and done,” Kremer said in a Nov. 26 Herald-News story.

Kremer and his wife Heather now live in Chicago with their children Calvin (who actually does have a Hobbes stuffed toy), 4 and Hazel, 18 months.

His parents, Ron, a former Herald-News reporter, and Jolene, live in Shorewood.


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Denise Unland

Denise M. Baran-Unland

Denise M. Baran-Unland is the features editor for The Herald-News in Joliet. She covers a variety of human interest stories. She also writes the long-time weekly tribute feature “An Extraordinary Life about local people who have died. She studied journalism at the College of St. Francis in Joliet, now the University of St. Francis.