Larry Snyder @larrysnyder.bsky.social ISE and Deputy Provost for Faculty Affairs @LehighU. Teach Algs and Social Justice class. Research on applied OR. Author of Stockpyl Python package for inventory mgmt. Co-author of Fundamentals of Supply Chain Theory. Crossword enthusiast and constructor.
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
@anuragpuzzling.bsky.social @anuragpuzzling.bsky.social Puzzling, Questioning, Reading, Solving, Thinking
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
Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com #banCars
More about me: https://lansner.com
My crossword puzzles: https://jklcrosswords.com
Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social Puzzles, ties, music, frivolity. Puzzlewright Press in the streets, AVCX in the singly-printed sheets. He/they.
That Matt @mattsword.bsky.social Crossword hobbyist
Published in: AMU, Defector, LAT, WaPo
Will @tlmberwolves.bsky.social Wolves (US), Wolves (UK), Loons, Lynx
Lil AVCX leadership
Puzzles at https://halfbakedpuzzles.blogspot.com/
Martha Kimes @marthakimes.bsky.social IP lawyer, crossword puzzler, writer, traveler. I love: autumn, Spain, Oxford commas, and Golden Retrievers. She/her.
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
Jeff Schwartz @jeffurry312.bsky.social One-time Countdown (UK) contestant (28/10/97), one-time Jeopardy! contestant (1/1/07), president of the National Puzzlers' League (2019-24), he/him
Greg Pliska @gregpliska.bsky.social Husband, father, composer, puzzler. World traveler, culture hound, book lover.
Coming soon, THE PUZZLER PODCAST on iHeart.
Rachel Fabi Ph.D. @fabioethics.bsky.social associate professor of bioethics • immigration, public health ethics, crosswords • she/her • http://abortionpuzzles.com • views my own
Michael Lieberman @footnote24.bsky.social antitrust and consumer-protection lawyer (good guys), crossword-puzzle maker
www.fairmarklaw.com
Eric Peterson @epeterso2.com Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. No, I didn't vote for him.
I write code. I construct puzzles. I play board games.
I work for Ford Motor Company. I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me, and we're both pretty happy about that.
Jamie Ding @feathersmcg.bsky.social he/him | Erstwhile streamer of cryptic crosswords and Kingdom Hearts at https://twitch.tv/FeathersMcG
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
Sowmya Ramkumar @somsram.bsky.social Puzzle Editor @Amuselabs Cryptics for #minutecryptic, #the_hindu, #Hindustantimes, Minis on #theindiamini Author - #crypticcrossroads Vol. 1,2 & 3, CFA
Charterholder
Robyn Weintraub @robynw414.bsky.social Crossword puzzle constructor for @nytimes.com, @newyorker.com and @people.com; Mom; big fan of truth/science/democracy
@richproulx.bsky.social @richproulx.bsky.social Crossword constructor & public servant
Sid Sivakumar @sidsivakumar.bsky.social crossword puzzles and such | (just refer to me by my name, it’s 3 letters and easy)
Kristian House @kristianhouse.bsky.social Dad, Math Teacher, Occasional Crossword Puzzle Constructor, Dog Fan
Dan Felsenheld @imfromjersey.bsky.social Crossword puzzler, Jeopardy Champion, NY Giants football and Nats baseball fan, NY Times Spelling bee afficionado
Jake @jailerkey.bsky.social 📍ATL / Improv / UFOs / Technology / Gay / Cats / Democratic Socialist / Paganism / Books / Puzzles / Antifacist 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇵🇸
Most non-blocked person on Bluesky
owen @obergs.bsky.social he/him 🏳️🌈
crossword constructor
2025 acpt d division champion
tinyurl.com/bergsteinpubs
dissonantgrids.blogspot.com- B @byronwalden.bsky.social @byronwalden.bsky.social
Danya Klapaukh @dklapaukh.bsky.social NZ Intensive Care Paramedic | Educator @ MasterYourMedics and formerly RCUK | Interested in big pretentious thoughts and challenging big dogma
Mathias Weis Damkjær @tweis.bsky.social MD, PhD Student at Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, Cochrane/Denmark.
Hyunjoo Lee @emdocjuju.bsky.social EM Doc. Former #MedEd Fellow. Tweets are my thoughts (or #FOAMed tidbits I learned from amazing educators), not direct medical advice.
Hap Waldo Emerson🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hapemerson.bsky.social Florida Gator, BSJM UF’71. Dad was “antifa” at Normandy on D-Day in 1944. He was not alone, and it runs in the family.
“ Si vis pacem, para bellum.”
Matt Flounders @mattflounders.bsky.social neurology resident @ UPMC, hobbyjogger
\\ interested in stroke, cerebrovascular disease, and dementia
🧠 mflounders.github.io
Marcio Boniatti @mboniatti.bsky.social Critical Care.
@benvalot.bsky.social @benvalot.bsky.social Anesthesiologist, Intensivist and pre-hospital EMS-Doc'
Interested in progress via Evidence Based Medicine. And lots of POCUS
Probably reading or listening to FOAMed right now
Burt Lesnick, MD @burtlesnick.bsky.social Pediatric Pulmonologist, Author, CHEST Philanthropy Board of Advisors member, wine geek
Philippe Le Conte @pleconte.bsky.social Professor of Emergency Medicine, POCUS trainer, Linux user, electric bicycle enthusiast
Rob 🚀☘️ @rjszczerba.bsky.social Rocket Scientist 🚀 turned Tech CEO; Senior Fellow Lockheed Martin; Notre Dame PhD☘️; Wrote cool stuff for Forbes, & Proud Autism Dad! ♥️
Mohamed Yahya 🇸🇩 @kidneyzool.bsky.social Nephrologist passionate about Home Dialysis and Incremental Peritoneal Dialysis. Flozinator and 70.3 Ironman finisher, combining care and determination.
@lulumarti.bsky.social @lulumarti.bsky.social Pediatric anesthesia 👶
Intensive care médecine 🙏
Réunion island 🏝
Is OREO In today's #NYTXW? @nytxworeo.bsky.social Does today's #NYTXW include OREO as an entry or in the clue? Not a bot; not affiliated with #Oreos or #NYTXW
Escape pod for https://x.com/NYTXW_Oreo RIP
juff @juffowup.bsky.social I make cryptic crosswords mostly at gnomoncryptics.com
And stream them at
twitch.tv/juffo__wup
(Not the ones I make. I stream other ones.)
Jess Shulman @jessshulman.bsky.social Freelance editor, crossword constructor, also busy with kids, music, books, paddleboarding, youth baseball, TV, cats/dogs... she/her
Steve Mossberg @mossdef.bsky.social Music teacher/crossword maker: WSJ, Times, Independent (Mog), and elsewhere. Cryptics editor at AVCX. he/him
patreon.com/squarechase
Brian Callahan @oliogrids.bsky.social crossword enjoyer - he/him - owner of the world's cutest dog - oliogrids.com
Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social Host & exec prod, "Talking Feds Pod" and "Talking San Diego." FCA Lawyer. Teach con law at UCSD & UCLA. Senior Fellow USC. Former US Atty, Dep Assis AG. Founding Contributor, The Contrarian
josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social Pulm/crit attending at U. Vermont 🐄 Zentensivist 🧘♂️ trying to post more about medicine in order to distract myself from doomscrolling 🤦♂️ author of free online critical care textbook emcrit.org/ibcc/toc/ 📖 no conflicts of interest 💰
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
Nick Mark, MD @nickmark.bsky.social Intensivist, pulmonologist | Husband, Dad² | made www.OnePagerICU.com & www.criticalcaretime.com | passionate about innovation in medicine & novel forms of medical education |- B John Lieb @boswords.bsky.social Math teacher, coach, crossword tournament organizer (check out Boswords at www.boswords.org)
JonNYC @xjonnyc.bsky.social
Andrew Ross Sorkin @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @NYTimes Columnist/Editor & @SquawkCNBC Co-Anchor. Author, Too Big To Fail. Founder, @DealBook. Co-Creator, BILLIONS @Showtime.
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Brian Sullivan @briansully.bsky.social CNBC Anchor (2pm ET), Chief Energy Reporter & Senior National Correspondent. Data-driven broadcaster & journalist. Storyteller.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
🎡State Fair Mode Shaun🎡🌽🥤🐄 @shauninmpls.bsky.social "The people have the power to redeem the work of fools." Minneapolis devotion/rage, managing editor for hire and all things word-adjacent, musician and music lover, libertine papist. she/her
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Rebecca Goldstein @rebecculous.bsky.social Drug hunter 🧑🏻🔬 | Queer 🏳️🌈 | Crossword constructor ◼️◻️ | Espresso snob ☕️
Alexa M. Quinn (she/her) @alexamillerquinn.bsky.social Teacher educator & lover of learning. Mom of 3 in C’ville, Virginia. Assistant Professor at JMU College of Education. Former 4th grade teacher. I study elementary teacher learning across content areas. Views are mine.
alexamquinn.com
A M👀se @rollickster.bsky.social Hermit Moose of the Cariboo 🫎
Daryl Sng @darylsng.com Public sector strategy & energy/environment consulting at Accenture. Former Singapore diplomat & climate policy guy. Proud papa. Loves cities, wordplay, trivia, food, sport. Pronounced “suhng”
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Judy Patrick @jute12834.bsky.social Believer in local news and lover of upstate New York. You can hear me on WAMC Northeastern New York Public Radio's Media Project and Roundtable. Former vp for editorial development at the New York Press Association and longtime newspaper editor.
Ian Pickus @ianpickus.bsky.social Rich in bunly goodness. Maximum R&B
Nada Surf Talk @nadasurftalk.bsky.social This is a community for Nada Surf fans. It does not in any way represent them or their views. I believe in #AlwaysLove. 💙🎶 nadasurftalk.com
Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social writer, historian, appetite!
https://benwurgaft.org/
AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social Crossword editor, feminist, liberal. She/her
Mike Nothnagel @mikenothnagel.bsky.social League curler | Union officer | Crossworder | Probably the only person who owns more Ryan Lavarnway jerseys than me is Ryan Lavarnway | ik spreek een beetje Nederlands | he/him
teevoz @teevoz.bsky.social Twitter since '07—now a refugee with multiple citizenship—teevoz everywhere. Zero tolerance for bullshit. NYT Crossword/Spelling Bee solve every day, comments some days on Twitter, here too. #NYTXW #NYTSpellingBee #CrosswordSky #GridSky #WearADamnMask
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com Jeopardy! champ. Waiting for Survivor to call me back. Writer. YouTuber. Podcaster. Mpromptu@gmail.com. (Send me story tips!) http://linktr.ee/HemantMehta
Articles at https://friendlyatheist.com
kim vu @dcwdkim.bsky.social but I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent and they're actually really, really nice
Katja Brinck @katjabrinck.bsky.social Mainly crosswords (consistent solver,
medium competitor, slow constructor.)
But also HIIT, strength training, running, hiking, skiing, classical piano, opera, travel, living life in Healdsburg.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
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
Brian Cimmet @cimmet.bsky.social crosswords, sandwiches, baseball, musicals • he/him
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
Deb Amlen @debamlen.bsky.social Humor writer, former New York Times Games columnist (Ret.) I may have helped you with the crossword.
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 🏡🔥🐉)
🐈Rex Parker🐈⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper) / https://letterboxd.com/realrexparker