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Hello! Thank you for your message. I am currently on sabbatical (December 20, 2025 - June 30, 2026), and I will not be regularly checking my email during this time. While I'm away, please enjoy this special sabbatical edition of my "out of office" crossword puzzle. See you in July! pdf puz

here's a puzzle that we had fun making, enjoy! -erik & clr   puz   pdf   p.s. we love the work done by "a trans person made your puzzle," you should check it out and donate if you have not yet         Created by erik agard & claire l. rimkus with the crossword generator from Amuse Labs

Hello! This puzzle was originally written as an out of office message while I was backpacking in the woods without internet access from July 2 - July 18, 2021. If you are seeing this puzzle after that time, it must mean I am out of office to 42-Across again! Please enjoy the below crossword puzzle, and thanks as always to clr and brooke for the test solves, and to clr for help with 74A. -rf p.s. If you want to know more about where I am, you can check out this fundraising page for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. And if you enjoyed the puzzle, please consider contributing to the cause! pdf puz

It's been exactly three years since clr and I started Just Gridding, and although we certainly post fewer puzzles than we used to, we're still happy  to celebrate our blogiversary!  puz pdf

 Thank you to everyone who submitted clues for this Just-the-Grid puzzle!  puz pdf Featuring and/or inspired by clue submissions from: kelsey Frisco17 Matt Forest Will Eisenberg WordNerdBird Lyle Broughton Bob Weisz Lance Enfinger Mike Koscielny Aaron Riccio Pixlate Emily Biegas Dan Schwartz jenesaiswha norah jibbymax Sala  Jono Berry Will Eisenberg Ada Nicolle Mark rebgold Rachel  clr and several other people who attended the live cluing stream!

Well, well, well, if it isn't the Just Gridding! team back with another "Just the Grid"!  In case you need a refresher, this is an experiment that we run every so often in which we post a grid and crowdsource this clues. Unlike most themeless grids, which are often created with a particular voice and/or message in mind, the grids we use for these experiments are created especially for this purpose, so that we can solicit as many voices and fresh cluing angles as possible. This is an opportunity for new and experienced constructors alike to experiment with voice-y or boundary-pushing clues, so don't hold back!  Check out the grid and then submit your clues using the links below (feel free to submit as many times as you like!).  Grid Clue Submission Form The deadline to submit clues is July 14, 2023. We will then sort through the submitted clues, livestreaming our cluing conversation and decisions on Twtich at twitch.tv/fabioethics . (Exact date/time TBD, we will keep y...

Thank you for your message. I am out of office June 29-July 5, and I will not have access to email during this time. In the meantime, please enjoy this "Out of Office Crossword Puzzle," which is a *contest* puzzle. If you find the four secret answers to the puzzle, you can submit them here  or using the sheet below for a chance to win a set of stickers from These Puzzles Fund Abortion . Thank you for your patience! -Rachel puz pdf Contest puzzle instruction:  There are four secret answers to this puzzle. If you identify them, you can submit them below for a chance to win a prize!  Loading…

it's friday the thirteenth, so there's something a little freaky going on in today's puzzle. enjoy! -clr puz pdf       

Well, well, well, if it isn't a whole second puzzle that we made out of leftover theme options from our Tuesday, September 20, 2022 New York Times puzzle. We were going to make this one the PG-13 version, and then instead we made it about nostalgia music. Enjoy! -Rachel + Rebecca pdf puz

here is a themeless puzzle! I hope you enjoy it. and an update: since Rachel and I started this blog, I have been posting a puzzle on the 13th of every month. I am going to take a brief hiatus from that schedule and post less frequently for the rest of 2022. -clr puz   pdf         

today's puzzle is a 15x15 themeless. happy solving :) -clr puz   pdf    

it's friday the thirteenth. this black cat just crossed my path...                   ... and now something's wrong with this puzzle. hope you have better luck than I do. -clr puz pdf       

The ACPT ~exclusive~ grid is now available for everyone to solve! Thank you to everyone who contributed clues. As usual, the resulting puzzle is an eclectic mix of voices and styles — clue credits can be found below the puzzle We hope you enjoy solving! pdf puz Across : 1A Matt Forest 4A Mike B 13A Rachel Fabi 15A Aaron Riccio 16A brucery 18A Will Eisenberg 19A brucery 21A Sally Hoelscher 22A Mike B 24A Shannon Rapp 28A Rachel Fabi 30A clr 31A Emma Lawson 34A Claire's Dad 35A Rob Ellman 36A Shannon Rapp 40A clr 41A Shannon Rapp 42A Matt Gritzmacher 44A Matt Gritzmacher 49A Claire's Dad 51A Daniel Mauer 52A Ken Stern 56A Claire's Dad 57A Shannon Rapp 58A Anna-Marie Ruoff 59A Matt Forest 60A Neville Fogarty Down : 1D Will Eisenberg 2D Anonymous 3D Matt Gritzmacher 4D Rebecca Goldstein 5D Aaron Riccio 6D Jessica Savieo 7D Rebecca Goldstein 8D clr 9D Jessica Savieo 10D Sara Heins 11D Matt Gritzmacher 12D Rebecca Goldstein 14D Shannon Rapp 17D Matt Gritzmacher 20D brucery 23D...

Hi folks! We've got another just-the-grid ready for crowd-sourced clues, this time by Rachel (as should be clear from the entry at 31A). You can find the solution grid and survey to submit your clues below — feel free to submit multiple times. This is an opportunity for new and experienced constructors alike to experiment with voice-y or boundary-pushing clues, so don't hold back!  Grid Clue Submission Form We will stream our clue review on Saturday, March 26 at 3:30 pm eastern, so please have your clues in by March 25 at 3:30 pm so we can organize them. The Twitch stream can be found here . P.S. If you haven't yet checked out These Puzzles Fund Abortion Too , edited by Rachel, Clr, and Brooke Husic, what are you waiting for?! The puzzles are excellent, if we do say so ourselves (and we do), and the cause the puzzles support is even better. 

themed puzzle for you today. and speaking of themes, there are some pretty awesome ones in TPFA2 ; thank you to everyone who has donated so far. a reminder that you can spread the word and also get a chance to win a cool sticker by following Rachel's instruction here .   -clr puz pdf      

back-to-back NYT publications on 12/2 and 12/3 -> the realization that 38-Across is a 15 -> this puzzle thanks to Rachel for test solving! we hope you enjoy   -Rebecca and clr puz pdf    

 The title says it all. (This post is by Rachel doing her best clr impression).  puz pdf

This puzzle is a sampler in the sense of an embroidery sampler and also in the sense of the ideal appetizer order for the indecisive. It's a set of smaller puzzles all crammed into one 15x15 grid, composed of four minis to whet your appetite before a more challenging meal in the middle. Whatever you do, please don't report me to @not_a_crossword . Bon appetit! -r puz pdf

thanks to everyone who participated and submitted clues! credits are below the PuzzleMe applet, and the twitch stream is available here . if you submitted clues and specified that you are a new constructor who wants feedback on their submission, I will be emailing you within the next few days. -clr puz pdf   contributors: thank you Matthew Stock for test-solving! grid: clr clues: 1A    Ajay 5A    Matthew Luter 9A    brooke 14A    Sally Hoelscher 16A    Anonymous 17A    Alexis Viera 18A    Rebecca Goldstein 19A    Ajay / Rachel 20A    Will Eisenberg 21A    Anonymous 22A    Ben Bass 23A    Rebecca Goldstein 26A    clr 28A    Rebecca Goldstein 31A    Rebecca Goldstein 33A    Matthew Luter 34A    Rebecca Goldstein 35A  ...

what better way to ring in 2022 than with some collaborative crossword creation?  here is a pdf image of my grid click here to access the google form where you can submit clues for up to five entries (feel free to do this multiple times if you'd like to submit more than five). please submit your clues by the end of the day Monday, 1/3.   ( if you're a new constructor and you'd like feedback on your submissions, you can let us know via the form -- after the twitch stream, we will email you our comments) on Thursday, 1/6, at 7pm eastern, Rachel and I will do a twitch livestream of our review of the submitted clues and make a completed puzzle together! -clr