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Sam Brody, of Brooklyn, is a research scientist and software engineer specializing in natural language processing. He has been constructing crosswords since 2022. This is his first for The Times.

He’s been hooked on crossword constructing ever since.” So Mr. Kugelman was a prodigy and is now prolific (much to our benefit, as his Sunday puzzles are all stunners).