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'''Joyce Cansfield''' (née Patrick; 1929 – 12 October 2019) was a British crossword compiler (compiling under the name ''Machiavelli'' for ''[[The Listener (magazine)|The Listener]]''), who set more than 1,000 puzzles for ''[[The Times]]''. She was also the 1980 UK national [[Scrabble]] champion, 1982 [[Countdown (game show)|Countdown]] winner and 1983 Brain of Mensa. She studied for her undergraduate degree in statistics at [[Westfield College|Westfield College, University of London]] and her early career involved the running of an early mainframe computer at the UK's Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne. Later on she worked at the [[University of Leeds]] as a statistician.<ref>Joyce Cansfield Obituary:Formidably smart crossword setter for The Times who won the British Scrabble championship with a score of 1,540 points, ''The Times'', October 21, 2019</ref><ref>BBC (2019) Last Word:Alicia Alonso, Deborah Orr, Joyce Cansfield, Clora Bryant, ''BBC Radio 4'', 27 October</ref> |
'''Joyce Cansfield''' (née Patrick; 1929 – 12 October 2019) was a British crossword compiler (compiling under the name ''Machiavelli'' for ''[[The Listener (magazine)|The Listener]]''), who set more than 1,000 puzzles for ''[[The Times]]''. She was also the 1980 UK national [[Scrabble]] champion, 1982 [[Countdown (game show)|Countdown]] winner and 1983 Brain of Mensa. She studied for her undergraduate degree in statistics at [[Westfield College|Westfield College, University of London]] and her early career involved the running of an early mainframe computer at the UK's Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne. Later on she worked at the [[University of Leeds]] as a statistician.<ref>Joyce Cansfield Obituary:Formidably smart crossword setter for The Times who won the British Scrabble championship with a score of 1,540 points, ''The Times'', October 21, 2019</ref><ref>BBC (2019) Last Word:Alicia Alonso, Deborah Orr, Joyce Cansfield, Clora Bryant, ''BBC Radio 4'', 27 October</ref> |
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Joyce Cansfield | |
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| Born | 8 October 1929  |
| Died | 12 October 2019 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Crossword creator |
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Joyce Cansfield (née Patrick; 1929 – 12 October 2019) was a British crossword compiler (compiling under the name Machiavelli for The Listener), who set more than 1,000 puzzles for The Times. She was also the 1980 UK national Scrabble champion, 1982 Countdown winner and 1983 Brain of Mensa. She studied for her undergraduate degree in statistics at Westfield College, University of London and her early career involved the running of an early mainframe computer at the UK's Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne. Later on she worked at the University of Leeds as a statistician.[1][2]
Cansfield died in 2019.
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