Puzzle 23 - 8x8

Longer delay than I would have liked, but here's another puzzle. 8x8, two black squares. Only one odd answer. The dual animals are a neat bonus.

The Atlantic continues to have similar grid shapes, but with helper squares, which makes them cleaner and somewhat easier to produce (both good things).

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Puzzle 22 - 8x8

That was a nice week, a week ago, wasn't it. The titles were fun. In the meantime I've been working on several kinds of submittable puzzles.

This isn't that, though. It's like those previous 7x7s. Wide open. But bigger, and with another black square. So it's got two squares without letters, 62 with. I've made a few of them to post. This one has only one wacko word.

By the way - today's puzzle in The Atlantic was kind of like those puzzles I put up last week. 7x7, almost entirely open. It was tougher than usual, too.

P.S. I've edited the clues here, a few times, to try to make it less impossible.

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Puzzle 21 - 7x7: Right Top O'

Another of the 7x7s. This makes a week of em. That'll be 336 squares you've filled in, if you've filled them all in. One and a half 15x15s. These numbers - I hope they're right. Probably.

This puzzle doesn't have so much snazz, but there are zero words you haven't heard of. That's a plus. I do worry that all this open space forces rather a few trade-offs, to use the lingo. Maybe some clues will confuse you.

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