Crossword x Lego

Person hitting some spiced rum merrily (7) Unbelievable remixed ode to holly (4,6) A Mossberg Christmas joint? Who knew? Honored to close out the AVCX Cryptics year under @naytnaytnayt.bsky.social's editorial eye. I hope it brightens your holiday! #cryptic #crossword crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/ByT...

Taking a moment to thank @danfeyer.bsky.social & team - & all the amazing setters - for so many wonderful Browser cryptics over the time I've been subscribed. I have all the books at home & will eke them out, & of course I'm looking forward to the occasional special coming up now & again. 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍 🦒

‘Tis the season.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Solving, constructing for, and editing for @avcx.bsky.social has been one of the greatest joys of my puzzling life. If you’re looking for a great gift that supports independent media, check out this fantastic subscription - minis, full-size crosswords, cryptics, and trivia to your inbox weekly.

So, the lot where we used to live in Altadena is on the front page of Time’s website 🤯 That’s us in the bottom middle 💕 time.com/7335166/la-w...

We are not worthy to live in the timeline where @sarathegood.bsky.social keeps putting out one banger cryptic after another! Be sure to catch her latest for AVCX.

Thank goodness

I wrote a silly midi to try and cross the generational divide - check it out! crosshare.org/crosswords/o...

AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …

I can unfortunately confirm that the opposite is also very much true.

Calling all new constructors interested in mentorship and community!

Crossword's conclusion leaves spirit low (3) @danfeyer.bsky.social at The Browser Crossword was the first editor to take a chance on me as a beginning cryptic setter, so I thought I'd make a little tribute puzzle on the blog. I hope it brightens your day! squarepursuit.com/2025/10/22/s...

I also wrote today’s @slate.com mini! slate.com/life/2025/10...

Escape from your Sunday Scaries by solving my latest Apple News+ crossword! apple.news/JKg_2f2EzRMa...

Send this fake NY Times Wirecutter recommendation to every dad you know. It's the only way to save our neighborhoods.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

You can just not use gen AI. Just don't. You've lived your entire life without it, it is in fact incredibly easy to keep not using it.

This is LGBTQ+ History Month, and I urge my followers who are LGBTQ+ (or just curious) to dive into one thing--a movie, novel, TV show--from your childhood or before. Look at an older gay work as something other than a relic or an error. You'll be rewarded. Your world, your SELF, will get bigger. >

Dissociate from the world by solving my @sfgate.com mini crossword today! www.sfgate.com/california-m...

Need a distraction from the news? Check out my latest crossword over at Apple News+! apple.news/JsKmC066PST-...

Annoyed that the NYT mini is paywalled now? Solve my mini today over at @sfgate.com instead! 💁‍♀️🏳️‍🌈

@sfgate.com has CA-themed mini crosswords now and I wrote today’s! Check it out: www.sfgate.com/california-m...

Season 15(!) of Dr. Cardin’s Chemistry 👨‍🔬

I used to make these Quiptics to help my fellow North Americans grasp the more deceptive UK cluing style by limiting the wordplay devices to one per clue. Every once in a while I get the urge to set a few more for my old blog. Here's a new batch. squarepursuit.com/2025/08/19/q... #cryptic #crossword

Breaking out an airplane hand shape in my next game of rock, paper, scissors because nothing beats a Jet2Holiday ✈️

Happiest of birthdays @danfeyer.bsky.social! You truly were born on the best day of the year, which further bolsters your GOAT status! 💕💕

in the final hours of pride month, we just passed $25,000 USD raised for trans charities 🥹 thank you all so much, seriously

One of my favorite crosswords I’ve ever written was featured at this weekend’s Westwords Tournament! You can buy a copy of it (and all the other great puzzles!) at the link below. 🚗🌴☀️

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Me: Finalizing student grades and trying to figure out how to ::spoilers redacted:: in Blue Prince. My husband: “Have you heard?!?!” 😂

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!! donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social happy pride :) tinyurl.com/transxwords

Time to post it again.

Super proud to have written puzzles for this and previous editions of @tpfa.bsky.social! If you value reproductive justice and are looking for great crosswords for a solid cause, check this out. 🙌

attn: xword constructors! spread the word(list) now has all of q1, 2025! new highly-ranked answers @enriqueha.bsky.social and i like: TAMAL, BEDCHEM, OKAYBYE, ACEPRIDE, INDIEDEV, VEGANMENU, JERSEYSWAP, LOGICPUZZLE, IVESEENWORSE, ENERGYVAMPIRE, SPOTIFYWRAPPED, CHOICESWEREMADE spreadthewordlist.com

Episode 3 of Crosstalk with @sidsivakumar.bsky.social is out now! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1sq5... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Credit to the constructors of this puzzle, @naytnaytnayt.bsky.social and @enriqueha.bsky.social !

Top 25% of solvers at #ACPT - I’ll take it! For someone who’s maybe solved a handful of crosswords in 2025, to get through all seven puzzles here with no mistakes feels huge!

Y’all, @theadamsass.bsky.social sent me autographed copies of ALL of his books(!) to help rebuild the library of queer books that we lost in the fire. 🥹🏳️‍🌈📚 Now, more than ever, it feels crucial to support queer authors - and I’m overwhelmed to have folks like Adam supporting me back!

Buy, solve, and support the hell out of “A Trans Person Made Your Puzzle,” a new crossword puzzle pack from @adanicklmao.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/transxw...

Did the universe just steal an hour from you? Let it steal a few more minutes by tackling today’s @usatoday.com crossword, written by yours truly.

Losing my Wheel of Fortune name tag to the fires was unexpectedly devastating, especially since I never thought I’d get that memento back. But look what the WOF producers sent over today! It’s truly kindness like this that keeps me going. 💕 Thank you, WOF!

This puzzle includes maybe one of my favorite cryptic clues I’ve ever written: [Teased unruly horde with “HOT TO GO!”(4)] More amazingness like that in the puzzles at abortionpuzzles.com 💁‍♀️

Very proud to have a cryptic with @enriqueha.bsky.social in this charity puzzle pack, which supports such incredibly vital reproductive health organizations. Get your copy of TPFA5 today!

I wrote today’s @latimes.com crossword - check it out!

And now they’ve charged us $59 for unreturned equipment 🙃🙃🙃

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Happy Valentine’s Day! We are so excited to announce that TPFA5 is available for presale! fund.nnaf.org/campaign/the... ⬆️Donate here, and be first in line to get your puzzles when the pack drops in March!

Lovvvve getting a mailer from Spectrum asking me to return the modem from my previous address 🙃