A good pun is like a good steak — a rare medium well done. In such a prey on words, rare, medium, and well done are double entendres, so that six meanings are packed into the space ordinarily occupied ...

He was the main whiz behind a crossword variation for The Times, whose readers delighted in his anagrams and sometimes groan-inducing wordplay. (Try one yourself.) ...

The creator of the Puns and Anagrams puzzle for The New York Times — a form that involved wordplay and groan-inducing puns, of which Taub was a master — died Sept. 14.