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sunday stacks for 🍎 News

After literal YEARS of trying, I finally managed to write a bioethics-themed crossword! Available now in @science.org: www.sciencenews.org/article/cold... (thanks to @norahsharpe.bsky.social and @bewilderingly.bsky.social for excellent editing!)

The @AppleNews Puzzles team is hiring a full-time puzzles editor. 🍎🧩 jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

37-Across: Kind of symmetry reflected in today’s grid, its answers (except this one), and the 4 unchecked letters in 2-Down

Just shipped a new release for xword-dl, the command line tool to scrape online crossword solvers into local puz files. Headline is fixed support for AmuseLabs embeds, but we've also added the LA Times Mini as a supported outlet github.com/thisisparker...

Proud of this collab with my bestie @jessietrudeau.bsky.social! it’s the sort of theme for which once upon a time i would have eagerly anticipated an unvarnished opinion from @rexparker.bsky.social

Apple News go brrrrrrr 🏎️

whoever gets to this guy first is going to be pretty damn happy about it

my friend @malaika-h.bsky.social is an incredibly talented and prolific crossword constructor—AND she keeps great records of her publications. I made her a very cool website that shows everything she's made malaikahanda.com

dad: want to make some Venn diagram memes with me? me:

37A: New pope of 2025, informally

10 years ago today I published a blog post about the pomological watercolor collection, which you may know from @pomological.xor.blue. it changed my life in some surprising ways! take a little trip with me down memory lane parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-y...

some see a gamer solidarity flag i espy esport esprit de corps décor

happy low-level acts of cruelty day to all who celebrate 🎉

torpedo bats mean it’s possible that: a submariner gets taken deep on a sinker by a pirate captain with a torpedo bat for a splash hit

nothing better than side-by-side puzzles with @rosstrudeau.bsky.social come for his 15x15, cap it off with my mini ✏️ apple.news/puzzles

more like “duo lingo” amiright guys

carousel 7, aka the 7th circle of HEL

these are tri cera tops

today’s Quartiles is mysterious and important

weirdly short NYT article about tariffs today

Mr Mojo risen

an honor and a pleasure to (finally!) share a billing with the incomparable @marytobler.bsky.social

c🤔ncept: AI f🤔nt generat🤔r that detects m🤔🤔d and t🤔ne my wife said she w☹️uld div☹️rce me f☹️r using it t☹️ text her but i dunn😏 i think it’s kinda c😏😏l

third time’s the charm

if you add an “s” to “clothes pin” it describes the other common method of drying laundry! just a little dry word play for ya besties xo

would order

beastie boys, headlining the APA annual convention: rhymin’ so HOT made us your mesSIAHS y’all got GOT by that cognitive BIAS

*river protection project stalls* officials: well damn it beavers: we’ll dam it

shout to my insomnia for inspiring the most satisfying crossword i’ve ever written

I love 🏈 🤝 I just watch sportsball for the ads apple.news/puzzles

words that start with “apo” go so unexpectedly hard

who called it an Apple One subscription and not a Severance package

just listened to a podcast ad for “foods that make your body feel great and taste delicious”

pulitzer prize for headlining writing WHEN

what CHANNEL can i STREAM this HUDSON THAMES show on? must be AMAZON? bit TORRENT? ah nvm he’s cancelled

stacks on stacks apple.news/JtK9t66PTSZe...

Charles IX: kneel, mon ami! Me: what, why? Charles IX: I am king Charles ze ninth! Me: You mean Charle six. Charle sIX: haw haw haw i get eet

the lampshade is a sublime detail. 10/10 no notes.

if you turn the “n” upside down, Turdean is an anagram of Trudeau really makes n thiuk

h/t to LL for a fresh cluing angle in today’s Apple News rossword 🫡 apple.news/JMeqss6myR1a...

I wrote a Severance-themed crossword for Apple News. This puzzle is mysterious and important. apple.news/J-GSQfUuhQBO...

My friend Nate Cardin, the author of today’s wonderful 🍎News crossword, lost his home in the LA wildfires. Please consider contributing to his family’s gofundme; there’s no bigger mensch in crossworld gofund.me/4736891d

we have photographed the peregrines that were on city hall and which were probably enjoying their breakfast forgive me, cat they were miraculous so handsome and so grim

Apple News Crossword in 5 mins, 56 secs Top 4.2% apple.news/Js_WgQPP_QIW...

this is a trash way to find out i’m off my building’s super bowl watch party planning committee

these are my birds