AVCX Classic

Here’s the deal! Subscribe, renew, or buy a gift subscription from avxwords.com from now thru the end of the year, and get a new meta mini pack, free.

After subscribing, send a blank email to freeminis@avxwords.com with “mini meta” in the subject line, and we’ll send you the pack. Honor system!

The puzzle pack is really fun, and was a collaboration by all the features.

AVCX is great! They put out a really fun variety puzzle last night that was perfect to do during a middle-of-the-night baby feed.

It was also my first time solving a pdf in the books app, which worked surprisingly well.

Solving, constructing for, and editing for @avcx.bsky.social has been one of the greatest joys of my puzzling life. If you’re looking for a great gift that supports independent media, check out this fantastic subscription - minis, full-size crosswords, cryptics, and trivia to your inbox weekly.

We’ll email blast on Tuesday, but you’re getting the offer in advance here, congratulations

Here’s the deal! Subscribe, renew, or buy a gift subscription from avxwords.com from now thru the end of the year, and get a new meta mini pack, free.

After subscribing, send a blank email to freeminis@avxwords.com with “mini meta” in the subject line, and we’ll send you the pack. Honor system!

Announcement: We’re putting the finishing touches on a new meta mini pack!

It’s co-constructed by various AVCX people, and it’s a bonus related to our subscription drive. More to come very soon, including details on how you can get your copy …

Announcement: We’re putting the finishing touches on a new meta mini pack!

It’s co-constructed by various AVCX people, and it’s a bonus related to our subscription drive. More to come very soon, including details on how you can get your copy …

live now doing lotsa stuff including puzzles from @amandarafkin.bsky.social (atlantic) and @sarathegood.bsky.social ed. by @naytnaytnayt.bsky.social ( @avcx.bsky.social )
www.twitch.tv/crossweirdtv

a man with a beard is wearing a red robe and a gold hat Alt: St. Nicholas with white beard, red robe and gold mitre.

Slander involving debut of Saint Nicholas, say (4)

In our latest Out of Left Field cryptic crossword, sent to subscribers this morning, @hpicciotto.bsky.social and I prep for Christmas by talking smack about this guy.

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The New York Groove Ace reporting on how to be a better New Yorker.

New avcx Classic xword rolling out tonight from Karen Lurie, titled “Double Elimination.”

In the email, we plug the New York Groove, an indie journalism site we just learned about, and which shares our ethos. Always great to connect with other independent outlets.

nygroove.nyc

Google search for “dessert that sounds like a Greek letter” — the result suggests “Galaktoboureko”

AI nailing it as always

Oh and back to the puzzles: if you’d like to solve Karen’s — or anything else in our archive — try a free trial today at avxwords.com

If you have an indie outlet and want to trade plugs with us during our subscription drive, reach out!!

The New York Groove Ace reporting on how to be a better New Yorker.

New avcx Classic xword rolling out tonight from Karen Lurie, titled “Double Elimination.”

In the email, we plug the New York Groove, an indie journalism site we just learned about, and which shares our ethos. Always great to connect with other independent outlets.

nygroove.nyc

If you’re looking for a variety of millennial-coded crosswords that don’t mess around with cutesy clues for fascists, arrive frequently, can be played online or printed on paper, are reasonably priced, and have a great response, I strongly recommend @avcx.bsky.social

Having a puzzle at Defector is definitely up there with the coolest things I've ever done. They rock!

Big love and support to the independent outlets who maintain a free voice in our current medial crisis. Defector is definitely one.

The Crossword, Nov. 17: The Struggle Is Real | Defector This week’s puzzle was constructed by Mat Holmes and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Mat is a teacher in Maine and a crossword constructor who is thrilled to be back in Defector. This puzzle was inspired by h...

Infinite thanks to our buddies at @defector.com (@maitreyiaa.bsky.social and Hoang-Kim Vu, xwords editors, among them)

… for the kind AVCX shout out today. They’re helping plug our fall subscription drive and we appreciate it. Their puzzles slap too.

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The best xword subscription. Full stop.

Super appreciate having you as a solver!

I signed up for AVCX Crosswords a few weeks back, and it’s swiftly become a top favorite of mine. The puzzles are very fun, beautifully constructed and clever, and they’re doing great things. Supporting quality work, getting a quality product, good stuff all around.

I love being a member! So many great puzzles with cluing that’s way more fun than the old institutions’. I’m not smart enough to wade into the cryptics yet, but maybe one day!

We are not worthy to live in the timeline where @sarathegood.bsky.social keeps putting out one banger cryptic after another! Be sure to catch her latest for AVCX.

I've been an AVCX subscriber for years and years (i think since the indie launch), and it's been an awesome experience! The puzzles are very high quality, fun to solve, and often have a little edge, which I love. Support AVCX!

Money is tight right now, of course, and we’ve had a few people write us lately to say they can’t afford subscriptions.

If you’re struggling but want to solve our puzzles, hit us up any time - support@avxwords.com - and we will happily hook you up free for a year. No questions asked.

Puzzles can’t un-furlough anyone or bring a job back from AI automation, but if solving gives you some pleasure you shouldn’t have to miss out just because of robber barons.

Money is tight right now, of course, and we’ve had a few people write us lately to say they can’t afford subscriptions.

If you’re struggling but want to solve our puzzles, hit us up any time - support@avxwords.com - and we will happily hook you up free for a year. No questions asked.

If you love cryptics, you’ve probably asked “why aren’t there more, and more fans of them?” The tl;dr is that people can only fall for them if they encounter them, and so first love scales with the publishers. There are precious few; AVCX is a good one. Consider adding their puzzles to your week.

AVCX is an awesome, independent publisher for all kinds of cool #crosswords (including North American #cryptic!), plus variety #puzzles and #trivia 🤓

Try a subscription and/or give one as a gift 🎁