Crosswords! Mostly themeless, no set schedule
Howdy howdy! Thanks again for all the well wishes - everyone is healthy and happy again and it feels great! Feel like my cluing has been in a smidge of a rut lately, so tried to step it up this time around. Bonus points if you can guess what movies we've been watching. Oh, and I've got a couple of nice surprises coming soon :)
Howdy all. Past few weeks have really stunk around here. Austin got pretty sick with some COVID/post-COVID stuff a few nights back. He's home, doctors aren't worried, and is improving but it's been scary - any and all good vibes, thoughts, prayers, energy etc. sent our way would be appreciated. Cluing this puzzle up kept me sane in the middle of the night - hope y'all enjoy.
No May 8 puzzle: Howdy, both the boys tested positive for COVID earlier this week. Everyone is healthy & recovered, and both my wife & I are vaccinated, but we are in the middle of two weeks of quarantining two preschoolers + working remote. Anyways, I don't have the time nor energy to clue (although the grid is rad) so just taking this time off. Be back on the 18th!
Please get your shot.
I'm delighted to bring you a puzzle that I streamed the construction of (well, 2/3 of the grid). It looks like Twitch only stores videos for a couple weeks, so the video is gone - but I had a great time & will try to do it again. Swing by my Twitch page next time (no idea when that will be, I'd love to do it like...once every couple months). And if you were hanging out w/ me in the stream, fear not, for I have rebuilt the NW, and the SE was left blank, so you'll get like 1/2 of of an unspoiled puzzle.
I did not ACPT - tough on everyone to not be parenting for a whole weekend - but I hope everyone had a great time! One of these years Morgan and I are gonna do a NYC/DC vacation around an in-person tournament - spend a week or so exploring one of the cities and get to meet puzzle folks in person. Anyways, big congrats to Tyler Hinman, who streams a couple times a week on Twitch as well - check it out & be awed.
Speaking of the puzzle, I think this one will be fairly tough - it's a little proper-heavy. Everything's fairly crossed and all that jazz, and there's plenty of non-proper fun. I also recommend either the PDF or the PuzzleMe applet on this one - bonus points if you print out the PDF & solve in the tiny grid as well :)
This is a very old grid that I just never was able to make the NW/SE work very well. Finally decided to plop the pair of blocks at the ends of 1D/38D. Probably am too hesitant to drop extra blocks in when needed - this grid's a handy self-reminder of the value in doing just that.
Next puzzle should be the streamed one, FYI. Anyhoo...