Happy Day-after-Halloween! Let’s get right to the puzzle! This month’s contest puzzle is “The Ending Places” by Heather Gearan. The meta answer is a prolific science fiction author. Heather Gearan has recently discovered the joy of crossword constructing and is extremely proud to see her first meta effort published by ACL. You can find her…

The pumpkin spice season formerly known as fall is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by fixing yourself a mug of apple cider, settling down in a comfy chair, planning the demise of the enormous skeleton your neighbor has inflicted upon their front yard, and solving a meta crossword. Actually, you really…

This month’s contest puzzle is “Don’t Hate the Player” by Emma Oxford. The meta answer is a Shakespeare play. If you’d like to see a wider variety of names in the bylines of these puzzles, please encourage your woman-identifying constructor friends to submit to this project! Or, if you yourself happen to be a woman-identifying…

Hard to believe we are eight puzzles into ACL, but somehow August has come around again. For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, I’m sorry to say this puzzle does not come with air conditioning – you’ll have to supply that yourself. This month’s contest puzzle is “Shh! This Is a Library!” by Emma…

Happy Canada Day to those solvers up north! (WordPress tells me ACL does get some traffic from up thataway.) A great day to listen to some Stan Rogers. This month’s contest puzzle is “Go By” by Emma Oxford. The meta answer is a science fiction author. To submit to the contest, send an email with…

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…

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…

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…

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…