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Greetings everyone! Liz here -- your Benevolent Tsarina of the Crossword Industrial Complex. High summer is just about over and because I'll be away this coming week, this post will be fast and furious. It's a Drive-By Edition where we're putting the pedal to the metal and flooring it. Back in July, we visited the USS Intrepid for the July 4 festivities. This pier (where the Concorde SST is situated) was the site of some exciting outdoor World Cup screenings in June. It transformed into a...

Summer in Riverside Park Greetings friends. It's been a minute or two since my last post and I'm hoping that all of you are doing well and enjoying the summer days. What's happening with me? Since closing down the subscription series last year, I've been writing a new book of crosswords devoted to my passion -- music. Specifically, classical music. Latest from Crossword Nation Press Well, the book has been published and is available on Amazon! A bit of backstory: I started violin studies...

Quincy the Spell-Checker A message to Subscribers: When we launched the Crossword Nation email service in 2011, we did so in response to folks who wanted an "extra" Tuesday puzzle to solve during the week. I had originally planned to run it for 10 years, but something wonderful happened on the way to the crossword forum: I met a delightful new constellation of friends who subscribed to our little puzzle. Today, 731 crosswords and 14 years later, it's time to walk off stage -- with the final...