Puzzle 150 - 8x9

Back at it. It's still pretty, pretty fun to make these.

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Puzzle 149 - 8x9

So uh, I found another way to match some six-letter words. Forced some unusual fill, but I like it.

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Puzzle 148 - 9x9

Well this stack's not the most compelling but I hope you like piecing it together.

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Puzzle 147 - 8x9

Food names are kind of flexible and combinatory. So I may make more like this.

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Puzzle 146 - 4x4

Tiny one. Hope you like it.

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Puzzle 145 - 10x10

Pretty happy with most of this puzzle, so I hope it's fun despite a bit of wacky contrived fill!

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Puzzle 144 - 7x8

Hi, smaller one today. With semi-helpful clues in brackets.

The long down was somewhat hard to find.

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Puzzle 143 - 9x9

New puzzle. Been a while. Same sort.

Got lucky in one area, with one answer that's both necessary and pretty contrived.

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Puzzle 142 - 11x11

Maybe you'll want to look some stuff up, though inference should suffice.

And it could be fun to check out the central thing after solving.

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Puzzle 141 - 9x9

Same shape, new puzzle. Again fun to put together.

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Puzzle 140 - 9x9

Continuing to construct around random phrases of equal length. Oddly tough to find a 3-Down.

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Puzzle 139 - 9x9

Put together another stackable phrase, puzzle may be harder than usual.

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Puzzle 138 - 4x3

Hello again again. Here is yet another small one.

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Puzzle 137 - 5x5

Little puzzle, may not be the easiest.

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Puzzle 136 - 7x7

Hi again. Hope this one's fun. There is one duped word, but it wasn't glaring until I saw it.

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Puzzle 135 - 7x7

Always fun to come up with new answers to make a grid stick together cleanly.

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Puzzle 134 - 9x10

Been a bit but here's a new puzzle. A number of abbreviations in it.

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Puzzle 133 - 8x8

Fun one to make, with surprising leeway. Though there is a word in the grid twice.

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Puzzle 132 - 5x5

Another of the small size. I like 3-Down if you read it à la You Suck at Cooking.

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Puzzle 131 - 8x9

May have gotten carried away. Too much focus on how to make it, not enough on "if" ...

Hope it's fun anyway -- especially the kinda random downs. Try not to notice the area that's overly constrained.

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Puzzle 130 - 6x6

Hello. This was fun to make, came out well.

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Puzzle 129 - 5x5

Too long a break, ahh. So an easyish mini while I finish up other puzzles.

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Puzzle 128 - 5x5

I like this puzzle a lot. But it might be too hard. Well, everything's supposed to be inferable with crossings.

And I do hope it's easy easy for the solvers most like me.

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Puzzle 127 - 12x11

Hiya. This one's my longest one-phrase stack yet.

After solving, this webpage (spoilers) may be fun to visit.

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Puzzle 126 - 8x9

And another. Be a challenge to put one up tomorrow too, but there might be.

Oh also 13-Down is funny. I made it up -- prepared to clue a fake word -- then found it in a dictionary.

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Puzzle 125 - 8x9

So yes, so soon. Another small stack I had for a while. Just finished the rest of the grid.

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Puzzle 124 - 8x8

Hi. Well that was a longish break from posting. Here's another puzzle.

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Puzzle 123 - 8x9

I've already made a similar stack ... which I forgot about until I finished the one here.

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Puzzle 122 - 15x15: Oval Circle

A real theme for once. It was fun to put together, new symmetry for me. You'll see I made an executive decision to include "unchecked" squares.

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Puzzle 121 - 9x9

Another one. A little segmented but it comes together.

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Puzzle 120 - 7x7

A sort of niche companion to my puzzle at 7xwords today (solve that first).

After finishing the one here, you might like to check out this poem. The whole website's really fun.

PS: Also I should link to Vi Hart's video from today

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Puzzle 119 - 11x11: Joke Votes

This was a fun stack to "discover" and build around.

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Puzzle 118 - 7x7

No stack here, but a different constraint. A little finnicky to construct. Easier with a seed entry.

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Puzzle 117 - 7x8

Another stack of four. If you go in with the mindset that it'll be easy, it should be.

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Puzzle 116 - 12x13: Strange

I hope you enjoy working out one of these answers.

Also, the clues seem to be competing in some type of nerd bingo (not intentionally).

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Puzzle 115 - 12x13

Hi again. This stack came together pretty well. Though the NE and SW corners are separated kinda narrowly, and might play harder.

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Puzzle 114 - 12x13

Another mini stack. Some parts might be hardish so feel free to look things up (really).

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Puzzle 113 - 5x3

Another puzzle, with another few clues, another brand name.

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Puzzle 112 - 5x5: Top This

Another mini that took some experimenting to fill. I quite like 2-Down.

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Puzzle 111 - 5x5

A mini that took many iterations. Also has one relatively long clue.

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Puzzle 110 - 12x12

Four words, held together with green paint and other maybe iffy entries.

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Puzzle 109 - 10x11

I like the 4x4 corners in this one, the bottom left especially. It could be hardish to solve that part though because I wanted the clues to have quotation marks.

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Puzzle 108 - 8x8

I hope this loop puzzle is fun. It's unusual that I can get cleanish short words along with good longer ones.

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Puzzle 107 - 8x9

Another good phrase. The long down answers are good too, again.

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Puzzle 106 - 11x11: Coming to America

Further adventures in phrases of equal-length words.

The name is from a movie from 2012. One of the tricky letter combinations in this stack happened to need a semi-famous crossword entry.

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Puzzle 105 - 7x8

Made this one quickly: 6- and 10-Across together are the name of a side-scrolling game that was popular once.

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Puzzle 104 - 9x11

A phrase I noticed in this New York Times article. Google shows there's also a synonym that's slightly commoner.

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Puzzle 103 - 12x12: Like This?

This one also had more constraints than I expected. Leading to a couple odd words, and a long one that's a bit of a waste. Doesn't matter though, the grid's smallish.

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Puzzle 102 - 4x3

Recently I realized that I can put whatever I want in a puzzle. Like, anything, as long as it's generally solvable.

So I was looking around recently. The Wikipedia article for YouTube Rewind was a good jumping-off place. And I came across the name of a channel I used to watch in elementary school ... Here it is.

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Puzzle 101 - 8x9

Similar in size to the last one. Turned out to be oddly constraining, so most words are common crossword fodder.

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Puzzle 100 - 9x9

Round number is a milestone. This is a fine puzzle for it.

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Puzzle 99 - 5x5

Could be a little hard because I clued the stacked phrase all together, unlike in yesterday's. Though it should be tractable enough.

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Puzzle 98 - 4x3

Hello again. The following puzzles will be smallish stacks similar to this. They just seem to me so perfect. (Though to make them, I tried lots more phrases that don't stack well.)

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Puzzle 97 - 8x8

Yet another. Has some interesting verbs, and the short words are mostly easy enough.

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Puzzle 96 - 5x5

This mini puzzle has an overused pun but I didn't know how else to write the clue.

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Puzzle 95 - 9x9: Tragedies

They happened to be nine letters.

A small note on one entry, the unusual four-letter partial. It's there on purpose. Not the "cleanest" but, with the clue, seems better than other ways to fill that corner, especially to avoid crossing more names.

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Puzzle 94 - 8x8

Another of the "ring around" puzzles. The clues should make it easyish to find a foothold.

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Puzzle 93 - 15x15 themeless

Another one. It had to be clued easier than the last because so many proper nouns. And it has a couple not great small answers but they hold together good things.

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Puzzle 92 - 15x15 themeless

First puzzle of a new year. Believe it or not 7-Down is my favorite thing here, the clue/answer pair I've sat on longest. Also my streak of iffy crosses continues, though I'll repeat Google et al. are fair to consult.

Apologies for omitting C.J. Cregg.

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