Jeff’s Puzzles

Themeless 130

Words: 62 (17×12) Average Length: 5.56 The two seeds for this puzzle, 26A and 5D, originally were intended to seed a themed puzzle, but I couldn’t come up with two other good theme answers and a revealer.  Instead, they anchor this themeless, which I think should play on the challenging side.  If you’re interested, here’s…

In A Pickle

Words: 38 (11×11) Average Length: 5.42 14A was the seed for today’s midi.  I couldn’t come up with any other decent pickle-related puns, so I went with 26A and 6D to round out the theme set. online | puz | pdf | solution

Yes I Can

Words: 76 (14×16) Average Length: 4.79 I’d had the idea for this puzzle for ages, but the construction turned into more of a challenge than I expected.  I even had an entirely different puzzle with the same theme ready to go, but I wasn’t happy with it and decided to start over. I’m a sucker…

From Start to Finish

Words: 16 (7×7) Average Length: 4.88 I constructed this one as an exercise:  I wanted to make a mini puzzle starting with 1D and ending with 12D.  As exercises go, it turned out to be of the not-exactly-breaking-a-sweat variety: to my surprise, filling the grid only took a half hour or so after I’d settled…

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