--- title: Bill Clinton, Arkansas Judge Make New York Times Crossword description: Former President Bill Clinton and Arkansas district court judge Victor Fleming created a crossword, which was published Friday. canonical: https://time.com/4777209/bill-clinton-arkansas-judge-crossword/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-12T15:39:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:52.052Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bill Clinton and an Arkansas Judge Teamed Up to Create a Crossword og:description: The puzzle is part of the New York Times' "Celebrity Crossword" series og:url: https://time.com/4777209/bill-clinton-arkansas-judge-crossword/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf003f0eb0645c109/6988cd148e06015f2a46a56d/gettyimages-656890706.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4122 og:image:height: 2319 og:image:alt: bill-clinton-crossword og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bill Clinton and an Arkansas Judge Teamed Up to Create a Crossword twitter:description: The puzzle is part of the New York Times' "Celebrity Crossword" series twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf003f0eb0645c109/6988cd148e06015f2a46a56d/gettyimages-656890706.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bill Clinton and an Arkansas Judge Teamed Up to Create a Crossword > Sponsored content. 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Former Irish Republican Army commander turned peace negotiator Martin McGuinness divided opinion both in life and in death but on Thursday his supporters gave him the funeral of an Irish chieftain. / AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images) Former US President Bill Clinton speaks to mourners after the funeral of former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at St Columba's Church Long Tower, in Derry, Northern Ireland on March 23, 2017\. Former Irish Republican Army commander turned peace negotiator Martin McGuinness divided opinion both in life and in death but on Thursday his supporters gave him the funeral of an Irish chieftain. / AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images) Ben Stansall—Getty/AFP by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra May 12, 2017 3:39 PM UTC Former President [Bill Clinton](http://time.com/4770756/bill-clinton-james-patterson-novel-president-missing/) and Arkansas district court judge Victor Fleming created a [crossword](https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2017/05/12?page=mini&type=daily&date=2017/05/12&%5Fr=1&date=2017/05/12&page=mini&type=daily&), which was published Friday. The New York _Times_ [crossword](http://time.com/4408334/crossworld-puzzle-art-filled-in-91-year-old-woman/) was released as part of the newspaper’s “Celebrity Crossword” series that is running throughout the year to mark the daily puzzle’s 75th anniversary. This is the fourth in the series. Other puzzles were created by Jesse Eisenberg, [Neil deGrasse Tyson](http://time.com/4707381/neil-degrasse-tyson-crossword-puzzle/) and pianist Emanual Ax. This isn’t the first time Clinton or Fleming will help put a crossword together. Fleming is regular contributor to the _Times_ crossword and Clinton has contributed clues in the past. Although the former president in known more for his affinity for completing rather than constructing them. “When I was president, I worked no telling how many hundreds and hundreds of crossword puzzles,” Clinton said in the 2006 documentary _Wordplay._ “I find it very relaxing. 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