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c13 - a matter of degrees (themeless)

enjoy! -clr  puz   pdf      

jg5 - Just the Grid #5 - Final Grid

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...

jg5 - Just-the-Grid #5 - update

Thank you to everyone who submitted clues! We've finalized the puzzle, but it won't go up on just gridding until next week because we are bringing printed copies to ACPT this weekend (it's an ~exclusive~). Credits for clue-writers are below, and feedback will be sent to everyone who requested it in the coming weeks. 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 Rebecc...

jg5 - Just-the-Grid #5 - Crowdsource the Clues

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. 

c12 - pull the plug

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      

These Puzzles Fund Abortion Too — "Too Soon" by Brooke Husic

Healthline.com says the following about what to expect in week five and six of pregnancy: “You might have PMS-like symptoms such as fatigue, sore breasts, and morning sickness.” If I went five weeks without a period and experienced PMS symptoms, I would think it was … PMS. Pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks: six weeks is 15% of the way along. To understand how realistic it would be to attribute symptoms of possible pregnancy to actual pregnancy, you may solve the following crossword, in which only the first 15% of each clue is provided. The outcome of Roe v. Wade divided guidance on abortions into three categories for each of the three trimesters. In the first trimester, abortion may not be prohibited; in the second trimester, some so-called reasonable regulations may be taken; in the third trimester, abortions may be banned. The third trimester starts at week 27, which is 67.5% of the way to 40 weeks. Here is the same crossword puzzle with 67.5% of each clue provided. Abortion bans are...

c11 - happy twosday

it's truly tragic that 2/22/2222 is a friday, so I had to post this today. -clr puz   pdf