Kelly Morenus @kmorenus.bsky.social Teacher, reader, crossword maker/solver, quilter, dog mom, bleeding heart, nerd, nosy lady
Proud union member 💪
It's Tobs @itstobs.bsky.social I still have never met Joe Pesci.
Shawn Bayern @shawn.bayern author, professor, etc. when I first heard about greyhound racing, I thought it involved buses.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social “Lesbian consultant.” “Your favorite poster’s favorite poster.” “A good argument, just miles outside the scope.” Union girlie powered by iced tea and Carly Rae. I will never watch a video. Please be normal in my mentions.
Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social Crossword maker. XwordInfo stockholder. Parent of 2.
"Making puzzles is my passion" - Jigsaw from "Saw"
RIP Craig Etui and stuff 😴
AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social Crossword editor, feminist, liberal. She/her
Lollapuzzoola @lollapuzzoola.bsky.social the greatest summertime crossword tournament ever held annually on a Saturday in August https://www.bemoresmarter.com/lpz
bewilderingly @bewilderingly.bsky.social Crossword constructor, he/him. Indie puzzles at http://blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/, and others at the New Yorker, Vox, Maclean's Magazine, Crossword Club, and more- K @katehawkins.bsky.social @katehawkins.bsky.social
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Ben Zimmer @benzimmer.bsky.social Linguist, lexicographer, language commentator, all-around word nut.
https://linktr.ee/benzimmer
Ross Trudeau @rosstrudeau.bsky.social crosswords, word play, birds, soccer
a ross and down
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Evidence, law teaching, crosswords, jokes.
Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
Sara N @sarasneeze.bsky.social Crosswords, puns, etc.
Heather NO KINGS Kennedy @heatherkennedy.bsky.social 🇺🇦☮️User #146,079 on here. Activist for things that piss me off. Texan (so lots of stuff that pisses me off to choose from). Puzzle hunt & escape room addict. Hoya. Award-winning screenwriter. Wife. Mom.
austin @austinburns.bsky.social remember what the dormouse said
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social Late night TV Writer/Producer. Horror-comedy coming 2027: The Big Kill
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
katie eschbacher @hikatie.bsky.social what am i doing here
goodness gracious
local history digitization & metadata wrangling at your friendly public library
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Beer and Crosswords @beerandxwords.bsky.social Beer nerd.
Tour guide. https://youtu.be/xFKOk_f7evI?feature=shared
They/them.
TRANS LIVES MATTER.
I don't post much, but when I do it's mediocre at best and rarely about beer or crosswords.
Natan Last @natanlast.bsky.social i write: crosswords, poetry, policy research, nonfiction.
i study: migration, economics, law & literature.
i work on making humanitarian migration easier from a policy & tech perspective.
B-Side @benmsmith.com Nerd-About-Town. Co-Host of The Eurowhat? Podcast. he/him.
goodatinter.net
@eurowhat.bsky.social
projectyl @projectyl.bsky.social i do puzzles and i startle easily
(he/him, cool with they/them)
JKel @orangejkel.bsky.social Scrabble, crosswords, random bits of chaos
“Most underrated 9-time Jeopardy champion ever” — Ben Ingram
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down. 
Ask a Manager @askamanager.org Creator of Ask a Manager – home to all your questions about lunch-stealing bosses, coworkers who won't stop hugging you, and how much you can drink at work.
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
@floundofpesh.bsky.social @floundofpesh.bsky.social 
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
Choire @choire.bsky.social I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night
New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social Tweets words when they appear in the New York Times for the first time.
@nyt-said-where.bsky.social for context
maintained by @maxbittker.bsky.social
Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social Host of the Savage Lovecast, author of Savage Love. "A deviant of the highest order!" — The Daily Caller
Slate @slate.com ~ ~ *brb visiting the 90s* ~ ~
You, you, you oUghTa KnOw: slate.com/party96
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social wlg fan club 🐈 email for submissions, credit and partnerships: weirdlilguys at gmail • IG: @ catsbeingweirdlittleguys • meme-inspired tees + stickers: weirdlilguys.com 🐱
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social podcasts (on MST3K, "great books", old trivia): megaphonic.fm || songs with bitter words: theminorthirds.bandcamp.com || instrumentals: themesquad.bandcamp.com || crosswords, poetry, photography, and more: chrispiuma.com || pronouns: 🤷
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
kateschmate @kateschmate.bsky.social crosswords n stuff
kateschmate.fun
ada nicolle @adanicklmao.bsky.social crossword puzzle girl. jokes woman. (she/her)
banner art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social
Paolo Pasco @gppasco.bsky.social Dad of two. Mets fan. Coffee lover. Bibliophile. Unapologetic oddball. #StillWithHer. Randy Rainbow stan. Love people but can't help but snark a little 😜. For your daily dose of sarcasm, methinks you should look no further!
Megan Amram @meganamram.bsky.social it's this weird, sexual, anti-comedy comedy that's 'in' right now. - my mom
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
sextina acab-fina @giltcomplex.bsky.social everyone loves me [citation needed]
she/her ✶ crosstina-aquafina.blogspot.com
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social Knows the alphabet (in order) Aaronson.org
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Dictionary.com @dictionarycom.bsky.social The official feed for Dictionary.com, the world's leading digital dictionary. Home to Word of the Day. Good at words, bad at Bluesky.
Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. Defector’s ALL BALL NFL podcast debuts 9/9. I’m just here for a good time.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Nate Cardin (he/him) @naytnaytnayt.bsky.social Chemistry teacher. PhD. Crossword constructor. Co-editor at AVCX Cryptics. Relentless homosexual. 🏳️🌈 Winner! (Wheel of Fortune + The 1% Club) Loser! (Trogdor burninated my village 🏡🔥🐉)
Will @tlmberwolves.bsky.social Wolves (US), Wolves (UK), Loons, Lynx
Lil AVCX leadership
Puzzles at https://halfbakedpuzzles.blogspot.com/
lily geller @lilygeller.bsky.social 
Chris King @ckingsc.bsky.social I write questions (Palmetto Trivia & Only Connect) and puzzles (Chris Words).
Sally Hoelscher @sallyhoelscher.bsky.social Crossword puzzle constructor, editor (Lil AVC X), and blogger (USATXW), cat lover, mug aficionado, she/her
https://usatodayxwordblog.blogspot.com/?m=1
sara @cantorlope.bsky.social just a smalltown melon
they/them
brooke husic @xws.bsky.social a. ladee (she/her) solved/wrote/edited yr crossword
catch me at @puzzmo.com
Conrad @ericconrad.com SANS Fellow, CTO of Backshore Communications, GIAC GSE #13, SABR member, golden age arcade restorer. Peaks Island, Maine
Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com #banCars
More about me: https://lansner.com
My crossword puzzles: https://jklcrosswords.com
Juniper Nest @junipernest.bsky.social Degenerate Atheistic Commie. Born to be a hype man, ended up being Your Mom
Wellness Advisor/Producer, Mindful Wellness @mindfulwellness.bsky.social
Tuesday Night Plant Update 🌱 currently on hiatus
Former Son of Trier (RIP), @SonsofTrier.bsky.social
Laura Braunstein @laurabrarian.bsky.social Digital librarian. Crossword person. Cross wordperson.
I reskeet your puzzles
Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social High-School English Teacher outside Washington, DC. Hexagonal libraries, translated literature, Bach, UConn basketball, distance running, & crosswords. Substack: https://tlit.substack.com
Jeff 🏳️🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social NYC gay guy, legal editor, history buff, crossword nerd, theater/TV/movie fan, ex-lawyer. There's almost always a book I'm reading. Married to https://bsky.app/profile/hitormiss.org.
tinmanic.com
Rich O’Malley @richomalley.com “One Lucky Fan” / @NYBuildingCongress / Ex-Executive Editor @NYDailyNews / Ex-Deadspin, Newsday, SJU, Medill, LIU / Flânerie / Irreparably fraught / (he/they)
Reality: 🗽 Daydreaming: 🇮🇹
richomalley.com
Rebecca Goldstein @rebecculous.bsky.social Drug hunter 🧑🏻🔬 | Queer 🏳️🌈 | Crossword constructor ◼️◻️ | Espresso snob ☕️