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May 2025 Monthly Contest: “In All Directions”
It’s May Day! Hope all of you who attended ACPT last month had a great time. This month’s contest puzzle is “In All Directions” by Emma Oxford. The meta answer is a literary location which should appear as a clue in this puzzle but does not. To submit to the contest, send an email with…
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April 2025 Monthly Contest SOLUTION
Title: Are You There Gods? Prompt: The meta answer is the eight-letter last name of a children’s author. Answer: D’AULAIRE Explanation: Eight symmetrically placed entries are anagrams of a Greek god plus one extra letter. The extra letters spell the contest answer. 13A PROUDEST -> PROTEUS + D18A AHARE -> HERA (or RHEA) + A20A…
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April 2025 Monthly Contest: “Are You There Gods?”
Happy April! No announcements or other housekeeping to cover this month, so let’s get right to the puzzle! This month’s contest puzzle is “Are You There Gods?” by Emma Oxford. The meta answer is the eight-letter last name of a children’s author. To submit to the contest, send an email with your answer in the…
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March 2025 Monthly Contest SOLUTION
Title: Blood Lines Prompt: The meta answer is a novel. Answer: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Explanation: four rows in the finished grid have a synonym for the word INTERVIEW next to a famous VAMPIRE, indicating the contest answer. Like so: 20A CHAT with 21A THECOUNT 26A MEETING with 29A SPIKE 44A SESSION…
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March 2025 Monthly Contest: “Blood Lines”
March has snuck up on us as it does every year, and somehow it’s already time for the third monthly contest from Ariadne’s Crossword Library! Before we get to the puzzle, I wanted to take a second to shout out all of ACL’s new subscribers who found their way to this site last month. I…
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February 2025 Monthly Contest SOLUTION
Title: How Can You Read This?Prompt: The meta answer is a novel.Answer: Ulysses by James Joyce 1A* BABY -> BABYBOOK -> 67A [A parent may look at one nostalgically] ULTRASOUND5A* FACE -> FACEBOOK -> 58A [Social networking site] LINKEDIN9A* PHONE -> PHONEBOOK -> 41D [Resource where you might find a local business] YELP43A* MAC ->…
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February 2025 Monthly Contest: “How Can You Read This?”
Happy February, and welcome to the second monthly contest from Ariadne’s Crossword Library! Those of you who were here last month might notice there’s been a small change to the website: up in the top right corner, there is now a link to a page titled Support ACL. I’ve been truly blown away by the…
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January 2025 Monthly Contest SOLUTION
Title: “The One That Got Away”Prompt: The meta answer is the popular novel whose title is suggested by the answers to the starred clues.Answer: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Explanation: The answers to five starred clues have had a traditionally feminine name (a girl) removed from them (gone), like so: 16A [*Denver-based hockey team] clues…
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January 2025 Monthly Contest: “The One That Got Away”
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first monthly contest from Ariadne’s Crossword Library! Before we get to it, a genuinely heartfelt thank you to those of you who subscribed to this site last month, before a single contest crossword had appeared on it. I appreciate so much the show of faith, and I will…
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“Opening Lines”
Welcome to Ariadne’s Crossword Library! Contest crosswords will appear here on the first of the month starting next month – January 1, 2025 – but to set the stage (to serve as the “opening lines,” if you will), a non-meta, non-contest (but still literary-themed!) crossword is attached to this post. Please do not attempt to…
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