How does it work?

The clues down below will hint to words that fill out their respective numbers on the crossword. Some of the clues reference the September newsletter, others instagram posts, or our physical bookstore cafe. Some of the clues are hard, so do as much as you can and access you inner detective. If all else fails, the internet is available to you.

The yellow tiles will give you letters that need to be unscrambled to find the secret word. Have fun!

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1. Michelle Tea anthology as singular

3. No caffeine in my latte please

5. “The New Lesbian ____” (book)

7. You might want one with your ice latte

9. We’ll be continuing this project at The Pond, so we can print it!

11. Queer Utopias are not fantasies queer utopias are ___________!

12. “Fierce Femmes and Notorious ____s” (book)

13. Sometimes we steep the London Fog for so long it becomes a London ____

14. Looks intriguing to the caterpillar

15. Last gender in a row of three options

18. Hottest event of the year

22. Brutally comes out in September

23. He was a gay awakening for some and shares his first name with a Virginia Woolf classic

24. There is 8 of 23 Across between them

25. Top of the rainbow

26. A drink for the fall season

27. The prickly part of the “A/S/L” author

31. #14’s lover

Across

2. Virgin singer or author Audre

4. ___, bottom, verse

6. Comes/came out Thursday 4th of September

7. This card is probably not sexually attracted to the rest of the deck

8. “2 Fast, 2 _______” (book)

10. “____-ish” came out last month, and was featured in a recent IG post (book)

11. _______ prisons, and the prison industrial complex

16. Leans on a log

17. “Her body & _____ parties” (book)

19. The pace of little corner-of-the-page guy

20. CKI’s monopoly for trans people

21. Hiding in the chocolate powder

23. Do you know how to write them?

25. Roman goddess, trans author of witchy trilogy, or a teen played by a trans actor

28. Marks the events

29. Frog’s home and yours

30. New tea??

31. The only radio we tune into

32. Interested in this theory? We got a book club for you!

33. Middle name of an author, one of whose books we acquired recently from AK press