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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

Thank you for your message. I will be out of office December 20 – January 5. Please enjoy this new (!)   "out of office" crossword,   and I will 8-Down to your email when I return. Happy New Year, and thank you for your patience! -Rachel pdf puz Built by Rachel Fabi using PuzzleMe's crossword maker

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

Thank you for your message. I will be out of office attending a meeting from September 17-22, and I will respond to your email when I return. In the meantime, please enjoy this  "out of office" crossword  (which I had originally made for the 2023 annual meeting, and which has been updated slightly for 2024!). Thanks for your patience! -Rachel .puz .pdf ps. Next month, I'll be out of office again as my friend Sam and I bike from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh, PA to raise money for the  American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  If you enjoyed the puzzle and want to chip in, we would be grateful for your support! Created by Rachel Fabi using the crossword generator from Amuse Labs

Thank you for your message. I will be out of office August 2-11, and I will respond to your email when I return. In the meantime, please enjoy this new "out of office" crossword . Thanks for your patience! -Rachel pdf puz ps. my friend Sam and I are raising money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention if you enjoyed the puzzle and want to chip in! Created by Rachel Fabi using crossword puzzle maker by Amuse Labs

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 for your email. I will be out of office from December 22 – January 3, and I will not be checking my email during that time. In the meantime, please enjoy this seasonal "out of office" crossword. I appreciate your patience, and I will be in touch in the new year.  Happy holidays! -rf

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…

Thank you for your message. I am out of office May 19-29 to celebrate my brother Zack Fabi's wedding to the most wonderful sister-to-be I could ever have imagined, Caitlin Betz! I will not have access to email during this time, as I will be occupied playing with their beautiful adopted dog MJ. Thank you for your patience! -Rachel

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

Hello! This puzzle was originally written as an out of office message while I was on a bike trip in July 2022. If you are seeing this puzzle after that time, it must mean I am out of office again! 

We are delighted to be celebrating our one year blogiversary together, and to mark the occasion, each of us has created a puzzle.  We did want to point out that we have a Tip Jar on the main page. You are not obligated to, but if you have enjoyed our puzzles and would like to leave a tip, we would appreciate it. If you do not want to give money, we also accept effusive outpourings of adoration and praise in the comments section. Thank you for solving, and cheers to many more years of blog! -rachel & clr r8 puz r8 pdf c15 puz     c15 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. 

 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

Hello and welcome back to Just Gridding!, the puzzle blog where Rachel and clr and sometimes their brilliant friends post puzzles. Sometimes those puzzles are created expressly for JG, and sometimes they are puzzles in need of a home because their pattern of black squares was deemed "unsightly" by the powers-that-be. Which type of puzzle was this one? THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW. (Jk, obviously it can't be the latter because seriously,  look how pretty this grid is ).  All jokes aside, this was a super fun puzzle to make. I made the grid, and Ben Bass  (who writes the NYT cryptogram in the newsprint paper on Tue/Thu) and I collaborated on the clues. Ben discovered his love of writing clues during the creation of the first just-the-grid puzzle, and he did a fabulous job writing some of my favorites in this puzzle. We hope you like it! pdf puz

Thank you to the 25 fabulous humans who contributed clues for this third iteration of just-the-grid. We had a great time pulling this puzzle together (see Twitch for the stream, which will remain available for a few more days). Thanks to Norah Sharpe for compiling the credits for this puzzle, and to Brooke Husic for test-solving it. If you submitted clues and requested feedback, we'll get that to you in the next few weeks. See you next time for a just-the-grid created by clr! pdf puz Clue Attributions: Adam Nicolle : 35-A; 13-D; 54-D Adrian Johnson : 8-D; 58-D Ajay Z: 6-D Alice Kirby: 25-A; 40-A; 51-D Ben Bass: 46-A; 47-D Brendan W. Sullivan : 12-A; 31-D; 56-D Bruce Ryan: 50-A David Harris : 21-A Hannah Krugg: 15-A; 24-A; 30-A; 33-D; 36-D; 52-D Hayley Gold: 11-A; 17-A Heather Pierce: 6-A; 48-A Jesse Lansner : 2-D Jessica Savieo: 60-A Jlsavv: 16-D; 35-D Kate Chin Park : 32-A; 45-A; 61-A; 10-D; 18-D; 23-D; 49-D Keith Fabi: 59-A; 62-A Ken Stern: 1-A; 3-D Matthew Luter : 29-A; 4-D M...

Hello and welcome to our THIRD just-the-grid, where we post a grid and then crowd-source the clues! This is an opportunity for new constructors (or non-constructors!) to get some experience writing clues and for experienced constructors to show off. Clr and I will review the submissions, and then we'll live stream our thought process as we go through the submitted clues and pull together a complete puzzle.  The grid is here , and the google form for submitting clues (up to 5 at a time) can be found here .  The live stream will be on 10/7 at 7pm eastern.