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Starting tomorrow, AVCX will be running a mini subscription drive for the fall. We hope to add 100 new subscribers, which will keep us healthy going into next year. If you’re able to spread the word, our thanks!! If you have a platform or outlet where you can plug us, we’ll gladly swap too

This was a really fun conversation. I don’t get too many chance to talk about puzzles as independent media, but I really believe in the point and Phil is a pretty brilliant interlocutor.

@avcx.bsky.social is great for this. You get a PDF emailed to you and you can print it out. The crosswords are excellent! And you get to support indie constructors. 👍

really digging the games on this new daily puzzle site dailybaffle.com (& shoutout @avcx.bsky.social for pointing me to it in their puzzle email today)

That means the world to us.

switched to these crosswords after canceling my nyt puzzle subscription and have been loving them. I had been worried about finding non-nyt puzzles that are sufficiently challenging, but I’m not worried anymore (they offer puzzles at a variety of difficulty levels). Cancel your NYT sub and get avcx!

Thanks for letting us know and yes we always keep a bottle in our purse

Much appreciated!

These are dope actually I really like their Defector crosswords

Support indie crosswords! They’re more fun than the NYT, I promise.

I'm currently typesetting tonight's AVCX+ crossword, by hand, as I have for years. Other companies would call this an inefficiency and automate it. But we still do it this way because we like its human touch, and no corporation can force us otherwise.

I like this job. I'd like to keep doing it.

We appreciate your support always

If you want to help preserve this independence, we hope in the coming months you’ll subscribe (if you’re not already in — avxwords.com), spread the word where you can, or leave a tip in the tip jar.

Sorry for the crudeness of the ask, but this is how we survive as an indie, which is what we are.

A healthy civil society is full of media organs of all kinds that can speak freely. AVCX is built as it is — no corporate owner, with the money flowing to the creators — in part to maintain this freedom, which we use and will continue to use.

We’re seeing right now (and the gen X in me is about to come out) that corporations can never be trusted.

If they’ll hold a pride event in a certain political climate, they’ll be just as apt to fire people for critiquing fascists in a different moment. There is no integrity there.

As we move toward our fall subscription drive, we hope you’ll consider supporting us in part bc we are an independent media company.

No, crosswords are not as vital as journalism. But yes, all content that we consume matters, and it should be as free as possible from corporate control.

I'm learning Spanish and we had the ano/año talk, which I was well-prepared for thanks to the crossword community 😆

BUT I don't think I ever asked if constructors can't just make sure the cross also uses a Ñ in it? Like AÑO/MAÑANA or something? Would that help? Do constructors do this?

Last winter, AVCX ran a subscription drive to continue funding our expanded puzzle offerings. It worked great! We won’t need to do anything at that scale this year.

But we will run a mini-drive this fall to keep the old budget stable. So if you like what we do, please spread the word!

❤️

best crosswords for like 20 years running

In a world where there’s a lot of moral ambiguity as a consumer, AVCX is a place where you can feel good knowing your money goes directly to the labor that makes the puzzles possible.

No ads from scammy apps or scummy government agencies. Just great puzzles.

Great puzzles, great causes. I've been a subscriber since the beginning (2012?!) and I'll keep subscribing as long as they're around. You should too.

We doing AVCX love this morning? Good because I love AVCX puzzles every morning afternoon and evening of my life. Great slate of constructors and consistently surprising and engaging themes.

Do you have an AVCX subscription? If not, what are you waiting for?!?!

I tend to avoid American-grid crosswords. But AVCX is one of my exceptions. Their puzzles are consistently fun to solve, and I look forward to each and every one.

And! They do a bi-weekly cryptic that always puts a smile on my face.

If you’re *at all* interested in crosswords, check them out.

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If you’re a crossword fan who for some reason isn’t subscribed to the best crossword puzzles in the world, please rectify that immediately.

If that all sounds good, and you’d like to boost an independent company and its constructors, try us today. Thanks!!

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We offer edgy themes that mainstream outlets do not, and we aim to be super loving in our editing and care for solvers.

And if you’re curious about us, sign up for a free trial at avxwords.com. You’ll get multiple puzzles a week, by email or to your favorite app. We do crosswords, trivia, midis, and cryptics.

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