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It's almost here! 🤠 Westwords is on Sunday June 22 and we've got a day of joy-giving, brain-tickling puzzles ready to be enjoyed by solvers both in-person and online. If you haven't registered yet, there's still time! ✍️
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Westwords | June 22 | Bay Area & Online
Westwords Crossword Tournament | Sunday, June 22, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific time | Berkeley, CA, and online Learn more about us below, and explore our site via the menu at the top of the ...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
thread!!!!!
Want to hear a cool story about reproductive justice, mutual aid, and crossword puzzles?

Let me tell you about These Puzzles Fund Abortion (www.abortionpuzzles.com / @tpfa.bsky.social), a crossword puzzle fundraiser that has raised over $350,000 in five years for abortion funds.
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these puzzles fund abortion
www.abortionpuzzles.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
i truly love the puzzle i made for TPFA. link here to donate and check it out! ❤️
✨Constructor Spotlight✨

Kate Chin Park (she/her, @kateschmate.bsky.social) is an Oakland-based crossword constructor and editor, a co-founder of @westwords-xwt.bsky.social, and a believer that any human who wants an abortion should be able to get one.

Get Kate’s acrostic at fund.nnaf.org/tpfa!
March 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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📢 Registration for Westwords 2025 is now OPEN! Visit our website to check out the details and secure your spot. We can't wait to solve with you! ✏️
www.westwordsbestwords.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Drumroll, please… 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Announcing our all-star constructor and editor lineup for These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5!
#tpfa5 #crosswords #abortion #reprojustice #fundabortion
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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just gonna drop this here
January 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Puzzles for Palestine 2, a charity crossword pack partnering with the Palestine Aid Society of America, is now available! A donation to the fundraiser gets you 22 original puzzles by some of the best constructors in the business: www.puzzlesforpalestine.com
Puzzles for Palestine
It's been more than a year. The genocide in Palestine—foremost in Gaza, but also throughout the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria—rages on. Thus, we do too. Whether this is “welcome back” or “welcome in,” ...
www.puzzlesforpalestine.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Hello, BlueSky!

Please follow our page so you can hear all about TPFA5 when it launches this spring. We can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been working on!
January 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Can you arrange these cartons chronologically? Play Laugh Lines, from our Cartoons & Puzzles Issue: nyer.cm/Bfmk5Tb
December 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Everybody wants to talk about "Exit, pursued by a bear" and nobody wants to talk about "Enter Pericles, wet"
December 13, 2024 at 2:28 AM
i love this grid 🥰 give my not-too-hard apple news+ puzzle today a whirl! apple.news/JCAjm4HbLRhS...
December 12, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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If youre in New York, you can also watch at the Pete's Candy Store watch party next Wednesday 12/19! 6:30!!!
had the great joy of competing on Pop Culture Jeopardy! with two of my dearest buds, @itsabigail.bsky.social and offline Simon. You can watch us on Amazon Prime one week from today (Dec. 18)!
December 12, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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had the great joy of competing on Pop Culture Jeopardy! with two of my dearest buds, @itsabigail.bsky.social and offline Simon. You can watch us on Amazon Prime one week from today (Dec. 18)!
December 12, 2024 at 2:22 AM
screaming at this caption but anyway LOOK FOR THESE FINE PEOPLE ON POP CULTURE JEOPARDY NEXT WEDNESDAY!
December 11, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Once again Goodreads is ground zero for internet drama
December 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM
i got these at a gas station in rural california and i really wish i could say they were better than they are
We have lost our way as a society
December 5, 2024 at 2:08 AM
come work with our team!
SIREN @newyorker.com is hiring a GAME DESIGNER, who will help us grow our suite of puzzles and games. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
December 4, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Join us in reaching out to more than 100 incarcerated people in Massachusetts this holiday season by sending us stamps or signing up to write cards

www.abolitionistmailproject.com/winter2024
December 3, 2024 at 7:26 PM
this sentence is about music but perfectly captures something i think a lot about crosswords
December 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM
GOT CALLED A COOL AUNT BY MY 16 YEAR OLD NEPHEW I'VE OFFICIALLY MADE IT
December 2, 2024 at 3:16 AM
weekly easy midi themed crosswords by moi 🙂‍↕️
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Themed Puzzles Archive
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November 28, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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Registrants, check your inboxes! We emailed out all the essential info today, along with a little bonus 😉

Haven't registered yet? There's still time! The tourney is a week from Sunday. Click to sign up! 🤠
www.westwordsbestwords.com/westwords-home
Westwords | June 23 | Bay Area & Online
Westwords Crossword Tournament | Sunday, June 23, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific time | Berkeley, CA, and online Click here or select "Tournament" in the top menu to view details and register!...
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June 14, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Miss the stream but still want to experience the constructor reveal? Check this out 😉➡️
www.westwordsbestwords.com/westwords-ho...
🗣️ Constructor reveal incoming!!! Tune into the Boswords Twitch stream tonight at 6 Pacific to find out who will be making the 7 puzzles for Westwords. We're so excited for you all to see this lineup 🤩
www.twitch.tv/boswords
April 16, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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🗣️ Constructor reveal incoming!!! Tune into the Boswords Twitch stream tonight at 6 Pacific to find out who will be making the 7 puzzles for Westwords. We're so excited for you all to see this lineup 🤩
www.twitch.tv/boswords
April 15, 2024 at 2:58 PM