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 ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

''. She was also the 1980 UK national

Scrabble ''Scrabble'' is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left t ...

champion, 1982

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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 , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

as a statistician.BBC (2019) Last Word:Alicia Alonso, Deborah Orr, Joyce Cansfield, Clora Bryant, ''BBC Radio 4'', 27 October Cansfield died in 2019.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cansfield, Joyce Crossword compilers 1929 births 2019 deaths Alumni of Westfield College