Dear Friends:
Today's AVCX+ themeless is a striking 68-worder by Matthew Luter, his first for us. It's titled "Animal or Vegetable" and fittingly, its difficulty is "easier than a Twenty Questions game whose answer is a mineral". So, a bit on the gentler side.
Matt is a writer and teacher in Jackson, Mississippi. He lives in a self-created media landscape in which '80s alt-rock has never stopped being at the center of everything, hence the seed entry at 51-Across. Matt is on the Lil AVCX editing team, and he's thrilled that with this AVCX+ puzzle, he has now hit for the AVCX cycle (if you count a mini-cryptic, and if you don't, well, there's a full-size cryptic coming soon!). A new crossword, usually but not always a themeless, appears each Tuesday on his website at matthewluter.com/crosswords.
And, in case you missed it, there's still some time to solve and enter the contest for Ryan McCarty's brilliant "Leaving the Nest" variety puzzle from this past weekend. We've gotten over 200 entries already and the contest closes on Saturday night, so don't miss your chance!
Cheers,
the AVCX+ crew
Solve this puzzle online! (AVCX login credentials required)
avxwords.com | @avcxword | @lilavcx | @avcxcryptic | @avcxplus | @avcxtrivia
Today's AVCX+ themeless is a striking 68-worder by Matthew Luter, his first for us. It's titled "Animal or Vegetable" and fittingly, its difficulty is "easier than a Twenty Questions game whose answer is a mineral". So, a bit on the gentler side.
Matt is a writer and teacher in Jackson, Mississippi. He lives in a self-created media landscape in which '80s alt-rock has never stopped being at the center of everything, hence the seed entry at 51-Across. Matt is on the Lil AVCX editing team, and he's thrilled that with this AVCX+ puzzle, he has now hit for the AVCX cycle (if you count a mini-cryptic, and if you don't, well, there's a full-size cryptic coming soon!). A new crossword, usually but not always a themeless, appears each Tuesday on his website at matthewluter.com/crosswords.
And, in case you missed it, there's still some time to solve and enter the contest for Ryan McCarty's brilliant "Leaving the Nest" variety puzzle from this past weekend. We've gotten over 200 entries already and the contest closes on Saturday night, so don't miss your chance!
Cheers,
the AVCX+ crew
Solve this puzzle online! (AVCX login credentials required)
avxwords.com | @avcxword | @lilavcx | @avcxcryptic | @avcxplus | @avcxtrivia