Jeremiah Farrell

Jeremiah (Jerry) Farrell (born 1937) is an American professor emeritus of mathematics at Butler University in Indiana. He is well known for having designed Will Shortz's favorite puzzle, the 1996 "Election Day" crossword in The New York Times. This puzzle was discussed at length in Allan Connor's The Crossword Century. He has also written puzzles for many other books and newspapers, such as Scott Kim's puzzle column for Discover magazine. He was featured in the New York Sun for solving the Washington Square Park puzzle in 2006.

With his wife Karen, Farrell has helped to organize the biannual Gathering for Gardner conferences, which started in 1993 as an invitation-only event for people connected with Martin Gardner.

In 2006 Farrell and his wife took over from A. Ross Eckler, Jr. as editors and publishers of the quarterly publication Word Ways: the Journal of Recreational Linguistics, established in 1968.