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Westwords III
Sunday, June 14
Berkeley, CA
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It's almost here! 🤠 Westwords is on Sunday June 22 and we've got a day of joy-giving, brain-tickling puzzles ready to be enjoyed by solvers both in-person and online. If you haven't registered yet, there's still time! ✍️
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i truly love the puzzle i made for TPFA. link here to donate and check it out! ❤️
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Announcing our all-star constructor and editor lineup for These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5!
#tpfa5 #crosswords #abortion #reprojustice #fundabortion
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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
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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
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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
weekly easy midi themed crosswords by moi 🙂↕️
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