When crossword puzzle editors use the "cli-fi" term as an answer to a literary genre "clue", you know cli-fi's time has come.

''Wait, what?''  

9:16 AM - 30 Aug 2019

The crossword puzzle was in NEWSDAY newspaper in New York and nationwide:

Referring crossword puzzle clues

• Dystopian novels like "The Carbon Diaries"

 

Recent usage in crossword puzzles:

• Newsday - Aug. 30, 2019

LINK:
http://crosswordtracker.com/answer/clifi/?search_redirect=True

PHOTO ABOVE 

thanks to an alert crossword guy
on Twitter for the heads up on this.





HOLY MOLEY! i coined this #clifi term in 2011 and do literary PR for it since then. It was answer on JEOPARDY TV show in March 2019. Now TODAY this nationwide crossword puzzle answer!  omg. this is is so cool!

CROSSWORD PUZZLE 8-30-19

AOL site: .......

#52 DOWN #clue was

"Dystopian novels like 'the Carbon Diaries'" --

answer was CLIFI aka #clifi

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Wait what?

9:16 AM - 30 Aug 2019

SEE ALSO:

''THE CARBON DIARIES'' is  a YA cli-fi novel by UK novelist Saci Lloyd