Sasha

In light of Crosswordr's announcement and upcoming closure, Sasha Solves will be migrating to another puzzling platform. Please be patient while we find a new home!

Sometimes I'm so busy making puzzles I forget bsky exists. Sorry loves - it's a Monday-flavored Wednesday
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Creative writing will survive humanity's greatest crisis. The robots can never replicate my need for attention

back at it
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I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now? Our 25th most-read article of 2025. - - -Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can...

Sadly, more relevant than ever. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

The number of unhinged interactions with strangers the last few months has me convinced everyone in the US is operating under mass trauma. Anyone else?

No Monday Mini this week. Got distracted by ⁺˚⋆｡current events｡⋆˚⁺ We will be next week, and have plans to extend into the week with even more crosswords! Please check out my puzzle archive if you're itching for the grids crosswordr.com/SashaSolves?...

Next puzzle will be in the New Year, and may or may not involve dad jokes crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/5k4...

As a DM, I want dungeons to world-build, not just be battle endurance tests. Players can pull back layers: a dark mage tower that was once a temple, once a sacred spring. Things are happening. Things happened before. Anyway, here’s my favorite photo from Christopher Anderson’s Vanity Fair shoot...

CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

If Gilmore Girls is an autumn-exclusive comfort watch, explain this

Monday Mini 12/15/2025 - Hoping to expand to more regular weekly puzzles soon. You'll seem them here first: crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/693...

Does this bsky account exist only to push the MONDAY MINI out into the world? perhaps, my friends, perhaps crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/UttyOp691a292206

This week's Monday Mini from Sasha (me!) at Sasha Solves (my crossword blog!): crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/Ejla2Z690e1cb2I6

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Monday = Mini forever and always

Another Monday, another Mini crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/Nbq...

Where is all the cottage cheese? From my upbringing in the dairy state, I have been a habitual cottage cheese devourer. Lately, wherever I go, it's sold out. I've gotten a single pint into my gullet in the last six months. Where is the cottage cheese? Where is it?

Good Morning and Happy Monday Mini! (new mini to start your week) crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/0LE0Tfe68e540c77

Monday Mini - October 13, 2025 crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/C68ddb8a5QhLwnQ1

Trying something new over at Crosswordr with a new weekly feature - the Monday Mini! Looking for a quick start to your week now that the NYT Mini is paywalled? Well lookie here: crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/LASI68ddb640ZXO4

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Back with a brand new track (jk this puzzle is from May and has made its round of rejections, so I will now foist it upon you)

Just had a mental image of someone firing a gun into an envelope, trapping the bullet in it, mailing it to someone they hate, they open the letter and the bullet flies out and hits them between the eyes, killing them instantly.

If Bugs Bunny were a terrorist.
#looneytunes

Karaoke after a core workout is basically two core workouts.

Didn't research a crossword themeset well enough before building the puzzle, and only realized during cluing that half the themeset had already been used in a published puzzle! 😨 Goodbye HIDDENVALLEY, my delicious ranch-inspired puzzle

8 Pre-Apocalyptic Novels - Electric Literature Step aside, post-apocalypse. These books ring the alarm bells for an apocalypse yet to come

The end is nigh... or is it? These books might have a clue.

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My Week of Rest and Relaxation Spoilers: I got a lot done

Take a break *and* get more done? fromthegable.substack.com/p/my-week-of...

In which I overshare the current BS fromthegable.substack.com/p/time-off-b...

Hall of Fame McSweeney's. No notes.

The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.

Movies now relentlessly signpost their meaning and intent. “Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone,” Namwali Serpell writes. “It is, in fact, condescending.”