โฆraises a lot of questions answered by my dating profileโฆ
18.10.2025 21:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@joshuakosman.bsky.social
Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
โฆraises a lot of questions answered by my dating profileโฆ
18.10.2025 21:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A protest sign with a drawing of a large orange butterfly captioned THE ONLY MONARCH I WANT!
San Francisco
18.10.2025 20:57 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Itโs impossible to imagine a right-wing equivalent to large, nationwide rallies like No Kings. Itโs nice to remember that we have numbers.
18.10.2025 18:24 โ ๐ 1124 ๐ 143 ๐ฌ 43 ๐ 8Someone appears to have gotten their hands on a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, but they blocked out the par part so it says no king lol
ooh well done
18.10.2025 15:49 โ ๐ 3036 ๐ 672 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 26bsky.app/profile/josh...
18.10.2025 16:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Remember it? I still say it!
18.10.2025 14:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sharif don't like it
Block the White House
Block the White House
Congrats!
17.10.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aiden K. Feltkamp @transcherubino.bsky.social in the first group too, obviously. (Sorry, was unaware of the relevant context here.)
17.10.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Eh Iโm not sure. Lorenzo da Ponte, Auden & Kallman, Royce Vavrek, absolutely. Luigi Illica, che me ne frega.
Am I wrong? Not feeling doctrinaire about this.
Lenny Bruce performing with a handheld microphone.
Arcane comedic art: going blue (10)
In our latest Out of Left Field cryptic crossword, sent to subscribers yesterday, @hpicciotto.bsky.social and I delve into the world of dirty jokes.
www.patreon.com/posts/puzzle...
My feeling is that the most important opportunity for the 2026 midterms is not flipping Congress to the Dems, but flipping the Dems to an actual opposition party.
17.10.2025 12:19 โ ๐ 304 ๐ 88 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 13Not a Catholic, no dog in this fight, but seeing evildoers vanquished is always right
17.10.2025 01:37 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on the Isidore String Quartet and the Kahanes pรจre et fils.
pacificaisle.substack.com/p/slow-cooking
Timely and not entirely obscurity-free cryptic clue:
Subject of the month's most appalling media story except for, surely, bundling E! with debut of Showtime (4,5)
The Way We Live Now.
Trollope is a god to me; my only beef with him is that he turned me against* Dickens.
*opened my eyes to the flaws ofโฆ
Zero lies detected
13.10.2025 20:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Solution: PECK
Kiss lightly: definition
at first, please: P (first letter)
don't begin: delete first letter of...
make out: ... [n]ECK
New puzzle and clue on Thursday!
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.
theonion.com/ice-raids-my...
11.10.2025 23:19 โ ๐ 13868 ๐ 3532 ๐ฌ 112 ๐ 69j'avais aujourd'hui ans quand j'ai appris que ยซoscariserยป est un verbe
11.10.2025 20:20 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0What a thread. Condolences.
10.10.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0sherman, for the love of god!
10.10.2025 01:11 โ ๐ 5822 ๐ 1831 ๐ฌ 126 ๐ 450This is a little heavy-handed, but how else is she expected to learn what an actual journalistโs job involves?
10.10.2025 15:11 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks to my regular 2am bout of insomnia for waking me just in time for this.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...
tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothรฉe chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.
Higgledy piggledy
Timothรฉe Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Kiss lightly at first, please โ donโt begin to make out (4)
In our latest Out of Left Field cryptic crossword, sent to subscribers this morning, @hpicciotto.bsky.social and I offer some kiss cam advice for newbies.
www.patreon.com/posts/puzzle...
This is exactly what we need. This is it.
"New York City Council member Chi Ossรฉ, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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