Words: 77 (16×15)
Average Length: 5.30
Now more than ever, it seems 57 Across (clue and answer combined) contains sound words to live by, regardless of your position on celestial beings.
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Tag: Medium Difficulty
Words: 70
Average Length: 5.23
Nuns, basketball players, rabbis, anesthesiologists, and a game of Musical Chairs all make an appearance – doubly, or even triply so. Have fun!
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Pb-Au
Words: 42 (11×11)
Average Length: 5.05
Whenever I travel to a new place, I try a local beer – solely as research for my travel blog, of course! I keep an online photo album of the beers; currently there are 53 pictures, and I intend to add to that on my upcoming trip to the South Pacific.
Cracking a cold one isn’t necessary to enjoy this puzzle, but the grid might put you in that kind of mood.
I just found out I misspelled 19D – it’s short one “n”. This was due solely to negligence, not to over-imbibing in any of the theme answers. Just think of it as a light beer. Forgive me!!!
Words: 18
Average Length: 5.00
I’ve been constructing for several years now, with several hundred puzzles under my belt (keeping all the gelato, chips, etc. company). For the first couple of years, I focused mostly on learning how to construct a grid with minimal dreck and interesting fill.
Now, I feel like the greatest challenge in crossword construction – and one that is not often enough met in major outlet crosswords – is coming up with clues that exploit the vagaries of the English language, entertain, educate, and reflect the constructor’s personality. (I promise I have one, though it’s sometimes well-hidden.)
This puzzle is an example: 7 of the 18 clues (1, 8, 10, 14, and 16 Across and 1 and 5 Down) might not or definitely wouldn’t be seen in a major outlet puzzle – not because of failing a “breakfast test,” but because of quirkiness. I hope you like them!
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Of Courses
Words: 30 (9×9)
Average Length: 4.60
This is not the puzzle I’d hoped to post today. Feeling optimistic a couple of days ago, I had a midi ready to go celebrating my country’s stepping back from the brink. Instead, we jumped feet first.
So here’s an anodyne puzzle with no political content. Life, for now, goes on.
Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω
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Before and After 2
Words: 74
Average Length: 5.11
Here’s another Before and After puzzle featuring an American revolutionary firebrand, a noted early 20th century novelist, a film rebel, a Rat Pack singer, and a famed writer of Theses.
The photo has nothing to do with the puzzle – it’s from my recently concluded trip on the Azamara Quest from Venice to Rome by way of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Greece, Malta, and Sicily. If you’d like to read about the trip and see lot of photos, please visit my travel blog, PuffinlessTravel.com.
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In Rare Farm
Words: 28 (9×9)
Average Length: 5.07
I’d been saving 11A and 21A for a full-sized themed puzzle but couldn’t come up with other good themers, so here they are in a large mini or small midi, depending on your definitions.
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