Welp, I achieved a crossword-constructing milestone. That's right: I stole a grid from Patrick Berry. (Classic misdirect.) Caveat: I removed two black squares from the original grid and placed two new ones, so if you hate this grid design, blame me, not him.
I was beyond lucky to get two amazing test-solvers for this puzzle: Will Nediger (with whom I had a collab with a couple weeks back and therefore felt bold enough to go crawling back to for more - and good thing, because he caught a massive problem that meant I had to re-do practically the entire grid!) and Nate Cardin (who reached out via Twitter recently to volunteer, as did a few other folks whose work I love! what an amazingly supportive community this is!). Nate also, helpfully, shares my love of several cultural references in this puzzle - so, you know, woe betide any solvers who underappreciate Fiona Apple. As ever. Anyway, the point is: thank you a million times to both Will and Nate! Including a puz file this time, as well as the PuzzleMe, but a quick technical heads up: a few of the clues are, uh, indulgently long. So depending on what program/device you're solving on, they might get truncated. I hope you enjoy this puzzle! Happy to receive feedback in comments or tweets.
Manic49er
6/5/2021 01:12:09 pm
Thanks for the puz file - my preferred form to solve in Comments are closed.
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