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Nov 12, 2022
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  • Sally
    November 12, 2022 at 3:41 am

    7:55. I liked this one! When there’s a multi-clue answer that you know, it makes everything so much easier!

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  • Nico
    November 12, 2022 at 6:18 am

    Did this with Sadie. Our score is 420 lol. When I said “Gape” Sadie SHOUTED over her coffee, “HOLE!” Which was…incorrect.

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  • hihello
    November 12, 2022 at 6:44 am

    10:47, with the last 15-20 seconds being me squinting at the puzzle trying to figure out what could possibly be ‘wrong’ and it was that, bafflingly, i used a 0 instead of an O in one square? why, self. happy saturday!

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  • miskate
    November 12, 2022 at 6:59 am

    Still very trippy to have my brain fill in the “lol gay” answer to a clue (32-D, looking at you!) and then realize that no, in the AS crossword, I don’t have to figure out what a straight person would guess instead!

    I am really enjoying these puzzles. Thanks, team!

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  • Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
    November 12, 2022 at 7:25 am

    06:40! but that was with me and kristen doing it together. love the queer lit clue

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  • Arvan12
    November 12, 2022 at 7:40 am

    14:50, my partner and I did it together, definitely gonna be our new Saturday morning routine!

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  • pearlpants
    November 12, 2022 at 7:51 am

    I love these! Thank you!!

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  • Chloe
    November 12, 2022 at 7:55 am

    8:28! For some reason the first quadrant took me the longest

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    • Sophia
      November 12, 2022 at 8:11 am

      That part took me the longest too!

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  • Valerie Anne
    November 12, 2022 at 8:05 am

    Got it in 4:20, score 570. I haven’t even read the three-clue book yet but I’ve read ABOUT it on Autostraddle enough to get it. 😅

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  • Serena
    November 12, 2022 at 8:33 am

    4:18. So lovely to wake up to this on a Saturday! I love having a little thing to do before i get out of my cozy bed. Now time to make coffee! Like Valerie Anne, I knew the title but haven’t read the book. One of these days I really should!

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  • Casey
    November 12, 2022 at 9:17 am

    Loved this one!!

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  • Ash
    November 12, 2022 at 10:22 am

    7:52, loved the clue for the climbing gays

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  • Ten
    November 12, 2022 at 11:22 am

    11:45. Starting to get the hang of these a little!

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  • Caitlin
    November 12, 2022 at 11:30 am

    2:30/score of 600! love all the commenters who are doing this is a couples activity, that’s extra gay points

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  • Gina
    November 12, 2022 at 1:12 pm

    3:40! This was so fun =)

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  • Elizabeth
    November 12, 2022 at 1:22 pm

    4:39! When I saw that crosswords were part of the fundraising goals I was kinda confused….but I’ve been LOVING the games content. Genuinely can’t get enough! Thanks for doing this.

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  • Deli Twotone
    November 12, 2022 at 6:19 pm

    Absolutely loving these. I did some laundry when I was stumped, which actually helped !

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  • Reb
    November 12, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    10:06 – loving these!!! I miss the crosswords from physical newspapers (but not the editorials lol) – these are so fun!

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  • starbit
    November 12, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    10 minutes some odd. I had to reveal a lot of this one. ps, is there a way we can get the info thing that pops up after the puzzle without having to redo the puzzle? because I want to explore some of those links later

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  • SAM
    November 12, 2022 at 11:58 pm

    This one was super fun even though I had to use some reveals!

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  • Kat
    November 13, 2022 at 6:38 am

    Loving this so much! What a delight! It’s so sweet to feel seen through a puzzle of all things. And to be reminded of all the good gay things Autostraddle has written about afterwards, A+ (lol) experience all around.

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  • Jay
    November 13, 2022 at 7:16 am

    I’m realizing I don’t hate crosswords!! I hate straight crosswords! I can actually do these ones!!

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  • Brigid
    November 17, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    1:48/615, and that Toni Morrison/Fran Lebowitz article just blew my mind – no matter their relationship, I love that they were so close!!

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  • Jayden
    November 20, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    this was so fun and challenging. I was stuck in the second quadrant for a moment, and it was a delight— after going thru the alphabet in my head lol— to figure out the one letter that satisfies the clue and the words around it. I love this series.

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    • Jayden
      November 20, 2022 at 3:31 pm

      18:23 / 420 B)

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