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Month: July 2023

Acrostic #12: Miner Concerns

One issue with 15×15 crosswords is that lively phrases of length 12, 13, and 14 don’t show up that often because they force some awkward black square patterns. Acrostics, of course, have no such restrictions. As a result, I’m proud to share some fun entries of those lengths in today’s puzzle. I hope you like…

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Puzzle #101: At The Circus (starring The Rackenfracker!)

 PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver | PDF Taking a brief vacation break to post this puzzle from the great minds at The Rackenfracker. I had very little to do with the creation of this puzzle, but they did a great job of extending the acrostic concept in a few very clever ways…

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Bonus Puzzle: Talk Is Cheap (dropquote!)

Over at the blog I’ve been playing around with acrostic-like puzzles. We ran an acrostic without a quote that we called a “portals” puzzle (https://tinyurl.com/xw-portals) and we’ve also run a dropquote, which is an acrostic without … well, without the acrostic, I guess. Here’s how it works: In a dropquote, you must reveal the quote…

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Acrostic #11: Darn Skippy

Well, we took a little break from stand-up comedians as fodder for the acrostics, but I couldn’t stay away forever. I like this quote a lot and I hope you do too! Solve at: https://acrostics.crosswordnexus.com/  Discuss at: https://discord.gg/ep2J3KXcmM  Enjoy! This content is available exclusively to members of this creator’s Patreon at $1 or more.

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