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For Eleanor.
Twelve summers · Sept 2026
19DStudio file-folder word (7)
21ALetter-by-letter fill (3)

Across

  1. 1What we do to your inside jokes
  2. 5How letterpress meets the paper
  3. 10Crossword regular (4)
  4. 11Music's natural high
  5. 12The pause before the punchline
  6. 13Suffix on a British company
  7. 14Old standby (3)
  8. 15Studio file-folder word (2)
  9. 16Where Donald Judd retired to make art
  10. 17What we wrote, after Marfa
  11. 18Bottom-of-the-page word (5)
  12. 20Crossword regular (5)
  13. 21Letter-by-letter fill (3)
  14. 22Stand-in answer (3)
  15. 23Three-letter shrug (5)
  16. 25Studio file-folder word (5)
  17. 27Curved, like a kept letter
  18. 28Bottom-of-the-page word (4)
  19. 30Crossword regular (2)
  20. 31Have, briefly
  21. 32Stand-in answer (3)
  22. 33What memory does, on a quiet morning
  23. 34Old standby (5)
  24. 36Workbench answer (5)
  25. 38Bottom-of-the-page word (5)
  26. 39Drawer-bottom word (4)

Down

  1. 1Genus of paper
  2. 2Bottom-of-the-page word (11)
  3. 3Drawer-bottom word (3)
  4. 4Crossword regular (2)
  5. 5How letterpress feels under the thumb
  6. 6Stand-in answer (2)
  7. 7Three-letter shrug (7)
  8. 8Old standby (11)
  9. 9Studio file-folder word (5)
  10. 11Margin notation (3)
  11. 13Drawer-bottom word (3)
  12. 16Stand-in answer (4)
  13. 17Three-letter shrug (5)
  14. 19Studio file-folder word (7)
  15. 23Drawer-bottom word (5)
  16. 24Crossword regular (5)
  17. 25Letter-by-letter fill (4)
  18. 26Stand-in answer (5)
  19. 29Studio file-folder word (2)
  20. 33Drawer-bottom word (3)
  21. 35Letter-by-letter fill (2)
  22. 37Three-letter shrug (2)
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From the book

A spread, just for the feel of it.

Twenty puzzles, perfect-bound, each a chapter of a friendship or a marriage or a year. This is puzzle four of twenty.

No. 04 of XX · Friday · April 17
Sourdough morning.
Theme · Marcus, Brooklyn, the apartment on 5th
7
Across
  1. 1What you do with starter on a slow morning
  2. 5Bedford Ave coffeeshop, six years running
  3. 11Marcus's grandmother's middle name
  4. 14How Brooklyn smells in late April
  5. 16Theme · the apartment, the rent, the kitchen tile
  6. 22What you finally said yes to
Down
  1. 1What we ran out of in Marfa, no map
  2. 2The first time you said it out loud
  3. 3Your mother's middle name (sorry)
Spread shown · puzzle no. 4 of 20 · "A year of Fridays" by Marcus G.
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