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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

imagine ever once in your life negotiating form/function tension this well

One more crossword before the new year, this time over at Apple News 🍎

wife got me a camera for photographing birds. it’s so over for you finches

found poetry

absolute gem from my early days of crossword writing

sometimes people ask me about my favorite crossword clue I've ever written but candidly I forget most of them as soon as they get published! but the same-grid pairing that I'm proudest of was: 1D Property of savoir faire (TACT) 55A Property of savory fare (UMAMI)