One image shows a queer couple happily embracing. The second image shows someone standing undecidedly among the library stacks.

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She’s a 10 But She Doesn’t Read Books

She has no real interest in reading and you just can’t move past it! Also, what to do when your partner’s new friend is no friend of yours?

6 across / 5 letters / "Caught Up in the Rapture" singer Baker

AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Mini Crossword Makes a Good Promposal

But actually — have you tried asking someone to prom with a crossword puzzle? It’s a good move!

5 across / 5 letters / "Billie Eilish Doesn't Have To ___ the Color of Charli XCX's Underwear"

AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Mini Crossword Has Classified Underwear Intel

We would never betray our sources, even if they’ve won 9 Grammy Awards.

AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Is Realizing Actions Have Consequences

See you next week for the conclusion of this learning journey.

1 down / 5 letters / "Queen ___" (show staring Rutina Wesley set in Louisiana)

AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Mini Crossword Is Fit for a Queen

Well, maybe not a size queen. But other kinds of queens!

Two images. One shows someone holding a cat, the other shows a person holding some jewelry.

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I Trusted My Friend With My Cat. Then She Stole My Candle.

Some things are missing, but did the cat-sitter actually steal them? That’d be nuts, right? Also, is it a red flag if someone isn’t friends with their exes?

8 across / 6 letters / Gymnast and journalist Hernandez who made an "and they were roommates" joke while commentating during the Olympics

AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Mini Crossword Is Making a List and Checking It Twice

The contents of said list are surprisingly mundane.

59 across / 3 letters / Las Vegas Ace's star Wilson

AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Full-Size Crossword is Very Big

Like, 15×15 squares big. That’s a huge (compared to other Autostraddle puzzles)!

5 across / 6 letters / "___ Einbinder: Everything Must Go" (stand-up special written by and starring ___ Einbinder)

AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Mini Crossword Is Making Sourdough

BRB, gotta go feed my starter.

Collage shows a mom holding a child next to an image of a cropped shot of a person in drag.

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My Family Is Freaking Out That We Took Our Daughter To a Drag Brunch

The drag queens loved your toddler and your aunt is absolutely losing her mind! Also, can you ask your gf to shave her bush?

kristen and her son in front of a fuzzy black and white image from the gilmore girls

AF+ Parenting & Family

I Am Not Lorelai Gilmore But I Also Kind of Am

“Suddenly I was pregnant. And then I was a dropout. And then I was a single mother. I had no money or resources outside of my deeply evangelical family, the same people who’d taken me to picket outside of abortion clinics when I was six years old.”