Contact by e-mail

An abridged client list — Publishing: Time Warner, Storey Publishing, Sterling, St. Martin’s Press, Random House, Uncle John’s, USA Today, Houghton Mifflin, Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Scribner’s, Scholastic, Workman Publishing, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, DC Comics, Marvel Comics Group, Children’s TV Workshop, Readers Digest, Oxford University Press, Times Mirror, Fawcett Columbine, Prentice Hall, Andrews & McMeel, Publications International, Field Publications, Rodale Press, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Harper Collins, Harcourt Brace, Penguin, U.S. Business Press, Xerox Educational Publications, William H. Sadlier, Herald Review, Scott Foresman
Companies: Showtime, HBO, AOL, Turner Broadcasting, Walt Disney, Miramax, Hammermill Paper, CBS Records, RCA Records, SeaWorld, Six Flags, Beaches resorts, IBM, Texas Instruments, Sony, Burger King, Denny’s, Olive Garden, Ragú, Kraft General Foods, Sunkist, RC Cola, Anheuser Busch, Charms Candy, Lever Brothers, Friskies, Weight Watchers, Jack in the Box, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Crayola, Legos, Pampers, Johnson & Johnson, US Healthcare, Puffs tissues, Lilly, General Motors, Westinghouse, Citibank, TWA, Mobil, BIC Pens, Carrier, Raytheon
Magazines: Scientific American, MAD, Fortune, Parents, Inc., Woman’s Day, Popular Science, Family Circle, Venture, Games, Ski, Tennis, Guideposts, Country Accents, Baby Talk, Good Food, Expecting, Cricket, Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, Ranger Rick, My Big Backyard, Electric Company, Guideposts, Dynamite, Weekly Reader

As well as many advertising agencies, design firms, and national organizations

Patrick Merrell is a professional puzzlemaker, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, art director, book packager and graphic designer. He's illustrated, designed, and/or written over 200 books, written 70 crossword puzzles for The New York Times (including Sundays), and is one of MAD magazine’s “Usual Gang of Idiots.” He also co-writes an online crossword column for The New York Times.

Over the past 25 years, he's produced thousands of illustrations, cartoons, greeting cards, posters, book covers, logo designs, and articles for a myriad of publishers, advertising agencies, national magazines, books, design firms, city agencies, and … well, you get the idea.

In addition to writing crosswords for The New York Times, he's also created puzzles for the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, People, Sports Illustrated, MAD, National Wildlife Foundation, Crayola, Scholastic, the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the World Puzzle Championship, and many, many others. Two of his crosswords and an interview were included in the 2006 documentary Wordplay.

He works quickly, is invariably pleasant to deal with and has never once been late with a job.

In his spare time he’s a bicycle road racer and writes animated screenplays (not yet coming to a theater near you). He’s married, with one beautiful daughter.