Words: 11 (6×5)
Average Length: 5.09
I set ‘em up so you can knock ‘em down. Enjoy!
Category: Themed
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English Muffing
Words: 74
Average Length: 5.00
English, notoriously, is a perverse language, where a word’s spelling may be an ambiguous guide to its pronunciation. Fertile fodder for this grid, as I hope you’ll agree.
Please check out my poetry site, It-Could-Be-Verse.com, and my travel blog, PuffinlessTravel.com!
Words: 11
Average Length: 4.73
I’ve seen this concept done as a word ladder, but a mini-puzzle doesn’t allow for such sleight of hand. Nothing fancy here; I clued 1 Down the way I did because that show perfected the technique of starting out fabulous, keeping it up for three seasons, then cratering. Just my opinion, of course.
Words: 42 (11×11)
Average Length: 4.86
Having a grandchild has fanned the flames of my already-blazing nostalgia. As I was reading to her last week – “Dear Zoo,” a wonderful book as long as you don’t focus on the fact that a zoo is willy-nilly sending elephants and lions to children upon request – it occurred to me that her elementary school experience will be vastly different from mine. And thinking about mine triggered a wave of visceral recollections about the look and feel of the contents of my desk. Hence this puzzle.
One more note: my 1st and 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Bonder, who is well into her 90s, is friends with me on Facebook and is as smart and admirable as ever. Mrs. Bonder, you’ve been a lifelong inspiration!
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Strange Desires
Words: 74
Average Length: 5.11
We all have our yearnings, some odder than others (I would pay good money for a fresh box of Product 19, which Kelloggs discontinued several years ago). Here are five fictional fetishes, some of which (I’m looking at you, 35 Across) might stretch wordplay to unwise lengths.
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Themeless 54
Words: 68
Average Length: 5.71
I had some fun with the basic math in the two seeds (19 and 49 Across), but my favorite clue is 31 Down. Throw in some Vietnamese food, a baker from Mayberry, Mariano Rivera, Superman, and Robert Frost and, I hope, you’ll find this an interesting and enjoyable solve.
Words: 42 (11×11)
Average Length: 4.71
I never saw the movie containing the line that underlies this puzzle, but I know the music and much of the plot through sheer osmosis. I hope you enjoy the puzzle, particularly the handful of “?”-designated clues.
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Roots Music
Words: 74
Average Length: 5.11
Cruciverbalists talk about “seeds” – the entries around which a grid is constructed. Today’s puzzle has five quite literal (and musical) seeds. I hope you like it, or at least that it grows on you!
Please check out my new poetry site, It-Could-Be-Verse.com. For Memorial Day, I posted this poem that describes a visit to the American Military Cemetery in Normandy. Recent posts on my travel blog, PuffinlessTravel.com, highlight a trip to view paleolithic art in France and Spain, with side trips to Luxembourg and Andorra.
Words: 41 (11×11)
Average Length: 5.02
I’d been toying with the idea for this puzzle for a while and finally decided to construct it during one of those games where the Nats offense apparently has better things to do than hit. After several futile attempts at fitting the theme answers into a symmetrical grid, I decided to embrace asymmetry (though if you don’t peer too closely it kind of looks symmetrical). I hope you enjoy the result!
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