Words: 74
Average Length: 5.14
As befits the title/theme, I jammed this grid chock-full of theme entries. I hope you find it tasty and satisfying!
Tag: Medium Difficulty
Words: 11
Average Length: 5.27
This one started with the answer/clue pair in 7 Across, which proved surprisingly difficult to build a small puzzle around. I tried it in every row before finding a layout that worked. Ah, the woes of constructing!
Words: 12 (6×6)
Average Length: 5.50
Here’s a medium-difficulty grid with some elementary music theory and a Dolly Parton song that, in my opinion, is one of the best songs ever.
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I just learned the original puz link may be broken. If so, please try the alternate.
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Libra-rians
Words: 72
Average Length: 5.19
This one shouldn’t be too tough, but don’t fall! I was happy to work in 60 Across – my team’s glory days ended (temporarily, right?) four years ago, but they went out with a bang! And I just realized the unintentional but at least slightly amusing symmetry between 1 Across and 66 Across.
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Rapturous Reading
Words: 70
Average Length: 5.34
I like books in the way Justice Kavanaugh likes beer. I read a hundred or so a year (not sure what % of his beer consumption that is, but it’s roughly 1000% of mine, being more of a Scotch aficionado). When I saw this marvelous quote from 34 Across I thought, as kids today, or yesterday, or possibly last month, say/said: “it me.” Hence the puzzle.
Words: 10
Average Length: 4.60
I guess I could have posted this in either April or September (as you’ll see once you solve), but as we are once again beset by smoky air, heat, and hurricanes, this is as good a time as any. If any solvers have personal knowledge that the clue for 5 Down is wrong, please let me know!
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Literally MMA
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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: 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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