Theo Ramsay
Senior Reviewer · Crosswords · @theo.r
Themed crosswords, trivia hybrids, and any puzzle that involves a fact you can look up. Has solved every CodyCross level released before 2022, which is exactly as much of a flex as it sounds.
Theo writes the long-form crossword coverage. His CodyCross retrospective — published after a year of weekly solves — remains the most-shared piece on the site, partly because it’s the only honest review of CodyCross’s pack hierarchy on the internet and partly because of the chart of pack-by-pack difficulty he commissioned and then privately disowned for being too cluttered.
Before joining the magazine, he spent five years as a senior editor at a trivia app you’ve probably played, where he was responsible for the geography category. He’s the reason none of our crossword reviews ever misidentify a country’s capital.
i Off-duty
Watches international rugby. Owns more atlases than any reasonable adult. Says he’s working on a puzzle constructor side project that no one has ever seen output from.