Puzzle 137 - 5x5

Little puzzle, may not be the easiest.

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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 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 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 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 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 87 - 5x5: A Top-Heavy Grid

Salutations. I took some liberties with symmetry and unchecked squares (and spelling vars.?), but the result here is neat. The clues should be scrutable.

P.S. Making this was fun - I did it first in my head, then checked it with scratch paper, then typed it up.

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Puzzle 86 - 5x5

I've been posting on here most of the puzzles I've made. So here's this one, with a little constraint I wanted to try, and then the most interesting fill option (though not the cleanest).

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Puzzle 85 - 5x5

Here is a mini puzzle that has multiple very good answers and nothing bad.

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Puzzle 75 - 5x5

The cramming continues. But even I have my limits. See, the square labeled 1 could have been a C, making both words more simple. But I wanted it like this. However I did not make the bottom-right square a Z, though it could be. That's too many proper nouns for a puzzle already loaded with them. But you probably know enough names to finish. As before, they're from various fields.

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Puzzle 74 - 5x5

Wow. The numbers for these puzzles are really climbing. 74 ... Anyway every answer here is great except 2-Down. I guess I try to hide the things I don't like in the downs. But then I mention them here. Alas.

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Puzzle 73 - 5x5

There were three ways I could have started making this puzzle, but this seemed best in order to get more perhaps-less-seen answers (3-Down notwithstanding).

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Puzzle 72 - 5x5

This is a sort of follow-up to yesterday's grid, but with a different letter.

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Puzzle 71 - 5x5

This mini has one questionable down answer, but the rest should be fun. 1-Across kind of set the tone of it.

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Puzzle 70 - 5x5: Potpourri 4

This, the last puzzle in the original little set I made together, has one answer that I learned from modded Minecraft and which you probably haven't heard of. But it's inferable with crosses. The following puzzles will have slightly different aims (but will still be small).

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Puzzle 69 - 5x5: Potpourri 3

More! What to write ... I suppose nothing.

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Puzzle 68 - 5x5: Potpourri 2

This next one's theme, such as it is, arose accidentally. The seed was 8-Across, and then the downs formed a cool two-by-three rectangle.

Potpourri here, in the titles, means I am trying to reach in multiple directions within each puzzle, though there is a throughline across a few grids.

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Puzzle 67 - 5x5: Potpourri 1

No more 7x7s are planned. Instead, I really like the mini puzzles that I have lined up for the next week or so. Some have mini-themes, some are closer to stunts. Some have sort of random things going on. This first one is simple, just an attempt to make a good mini puzzle that includes 3-Down.

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