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Westwords | June 22 | Bay Area & Online Westwords 2025 is in the books! Thanks to all of our solvers, volunteers, and constructors for making it a huge success, and congratulations to the winners! The puzzle packs from 2025 and 2024 can be ...

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Westwords III
Sunday, June 14
Berkeley, CA
Individual and pairs solvers welcome

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Westwords | June 22 | Bay Area & Online Westwords Crossword Tournament | Sunday, June 22, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific time | Berkeley, CA, and online Learn more about us below, and explore our site via the menu at the top of the ...

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i truly love the puzzle i made for TPFA. link here to donate and check it out! ❤️

📢 Registration for Westwords 2025 is now OPEN! Visit our website to check out the details and secure your spot. We can't wait to solve with you! ✏️
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graphic announcing These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5, with 27 constructor names, 3 editors, and 4 guest editors

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Announcing our all-star constructor and editor lineup for These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5!
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just gonna drop this here

Puzzles for Palestine It's been more than a year. The genocide in Palestine—foremost in Gaza, but also throughout the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria—rages on. Thus, we do too. Whether this is “welcome back” or “welcome in,” ...

Puzzles for Palestine 2, a charity crossword pack partnering with the Palestine Aid Society of America, is now available! A donation to the fundraiser gets you 22 original puzzles by some of the best constructors in the business: www.puzzlesforpalestine.com

Hello, BlueSky!

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Can you arrange these cartons chronologically? Play Laugh Lines, from our Cartoons & Puzzles Issue: nyer.cm/Bfmk5Tb

Everybody wants to talk about "Exit, pursued by a bear" and nobody wants to talk about "Enter Pericles, wet"

i love this grid 🥰 give my not-too-hard apple news+ puzzle today a whirl! apple.news/JCAjm4HbLRhS...

If youre in New York, you can also watch at the Pete's Candy Store watch party next Wednesday 12/19! 6:30!!!

had the great joy of competing on Pop Culture Jeopardy! with two of my dearest buds, @itsabigail.bsky.social and offline Simon. You can watch us on Amazon Prime one week from today (Dec. 18)!

screaming at this caption but anyway LOOK FOR THESE FINE PEOPLE ON POP CULTURE JEOPARDY NEXT WEDNESDAY!

Once again Goodreads is ground zero for internet drama

i got these at a gas station in rural california and i really wish i could say they were better than they are

come work with our team!

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there's some kind of spectrum here with hegemonic monoculture at one end and hyperspecific shibboleths at the other but i don't entirely have my head around the intermediate points

not sure if this at all answers you @bewilderingly.bsky.social 🥴

ofc this isn't at all limited to slang/new stuff - there are no words more frustrating to a new solver than "oh yeah i know that word from crosswords" - that's just a lens i'm seeing through atm

(which, to be clear, can be great when it's done intentionally)

xword constructors, who are obv interested in language, jump at the opportunity to include new and interesting words/phrases in grids, but when it's something that has no meaning outside its original context/audience, it is inherently exclusive bc it can't even be made comprehensible to anyone else

very willing, tho i haven't been able to articulate it very well even to myself so it may not be coherent! it's of a piece with an observation about "slang" referring to what are effectively inside jokes with short lifespan, as much as to new-but-useful terms that assimilate into common usage

this sentence is about music but perfectly captures something i think a lot about crosswords

GOT CALLED A COOL AUNT BY MY 16 YEAR OLD NEPHEW I'VE OFFICIALLY MADE IT

Themed Puzzles Archive

weekly easy midi themed crosswords by moi 🙂‍↕️
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Westwords | June 23 | Bay Area & Online Westwords Crossword Tournament | Sunday, June 23, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific time | Berkeley, CA, and online Click here or select "Tournament" in the top menu to view details and register!...

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