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2025


Dec 11. USA Today: “That’s Delish-ish!”, with Shannon Rapp

Nov 25. Placeholder Puzzles: "The Reason for the Season"

Oct 13. Placeholder Puzzles: "It's starting to rain"

Sep 17. Placeholder Puzzles: “It’s not a limbo contest”

Sep 5. Crossword Flow: “Post-It Notes”

Sep 1. Placeholder Puzzles: "A Crossword Mini-festo"

Aug 18. Placeholder Puzzles: “Pears Division”

Aug 10. Crossword Flow: “Stuck in a rut”

Aug 4. Placeholder Puzzles: “My favorite things”, with Liesel Mullerheim (debut puzzle for my niece Liesel)

Jul 21. Placeholder Puzzles: “Summer vacation”

Jul 7. Placeholder Puzzles: “Ten-nis, anyone?”

Jun 24. Placeholder Puzzles: “Up and Down”

Jun 21. Crossword Flow: “Is it cake?”

Jun 9. Placeholder Puzzles: “What’s black and white and solved all over”
Jun 6. Crossword Flow: “Why? Why not!”

May 26. Placeholder Puzzles: “Run 10k with me”

May 13. Crossword Flow: “Practice makes perfect”

May 10. Placeholder Puzzles: “Word to your mother”

Apr 28. Placeholder Puzzles: “I Am Not A Robot”, with Shannon Rapp, Sally Hoelscher, Matt Luter, Geoffrey Schorkopf

Apr 14. Placeholder Puzzles: “Spring has sprung”

Apr 7. Crossword Flow: “Have fun with 5-down!”

Mar 21. Crossword Flow: “Legends”

Feb 24. Lil AVCX: “Let’s go spelunking!”

Jan 25. USA Today: “Ziplines”

Jan 15. Crossword Flow: Untitled

Jan 3. Crossword Flow: “Take a hike!”

2024


Dec 26. Crossword Flow: “It’s a plus!”

Dec 21. Crossword Flow: “What’s up?”

Dec 10. Crossword Flow: “Chomp”

Nov 29. Crossword Flow: “Anything you can do, I can do better”

Nov 4. Lil AVCX: Hard Themeless: "These Go To 11..."

Sep 20. Crossword Flow: Untitled

Sep 1. Crossword Flow: Untitled

Aug 20. Lil AVCX: “The Lion’s Share”

Aug 19. Crossword Flow: “Did you save room for dessert?”

Aug 9. Crossword Flow: Untitled

Jul 24. USA Today: “Airline Food”, with Matthew Brinck

Jul 10. USA Today: “Split Peas”, with Shannon Rapp 

Jul 8. Lil AVCX: “The Roswell Incident”

May 27. Lil AVCX: “Your mission, should your choose to accept it…”

Apr 8. Lil AVCX: “Eclipse”

Feb 20. Lil AVCX: “Winter’s My Jam”


2018-2022


Aug 15, 2022. Daily POP crosswords: “Phish”

Mar 21, 2022. Boswords Spring Themeless League tournament: “Themeless”

Sep 29, 2021. 7x7 project: “September 29”

Jun 2, 2021. Colgate University alumni magazine, “Go, ‘Gate!”

May 5, 2021. 7x7 project: “May 5”

Apr 4, 2021. 7x7 project: “April 4”

Mar 29, 2021. Daily POP crosswords: “Picabo Street (Turns 50)”

Mar 15, 2021. Daily POP crosswords: “Formula 1”

Dec 21, 2020. Daily POP crosswords: “Cobra Kai”

Dec 1, 2020. Crosswords Club: “Puzzle 2600: Winter Workout” (end of year themeless)

Nov 23, 2020. Daily POP crosswords: “The Bachelorette”

May 18, 2020. USA Today: “Bear Left”

May 6, 2020. Fill Me In podcast: O3

Sep 8, 2019. Wall Street Journal: “Friends of Ours”, with Brad Wilber

Sep 1, 2019. Crosswords Club: “Puzzle 2508: Appendixes”, with Erik Agard

Jun 13, 2019. Inkubator. “GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!” (soccer ball-shaped grid art)

Nov 27, 2018. Universal, “A+”, with Andrea Carla Michaels


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