Hey, it’s my birthday! Also, I’ve spent the last few months writing and recording an album. That’s right, the band is back together. After you finish this puzzle, you should check it out on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. (There’s a music video for the first song there and everything! Or, there will be in a few hours, you early bird.)
Anyway, I hope enjoy the puzzle — and all the new songs!
Norah and I were chatting (during one of Brian Thomas’s construction streams) about a recent controversy at the New York Times Spelling Bee that has rocked the crossworld to its core. I decided to raise a little awareness through the only means we have at our disposal: letters (to the editor) in polygons.
Enjoy my silly puzzle. (And look forward to a puzzle for a much serious cause in the near future!)
On Friday nights, some of my podcasting friends and I gather together to play games on our Twitch channel. Sometimes we play a home version of a popular game show where people are surveyed and then contestants — perhaps from competing families — have to guess the results of the surveys. Anyway, if that sounds like fun, you should join us sometimes (Fridays at 8pm Eastern). And you might enjoy this puzzle.
Thanks to Norah for looking this one over, and if you like it / stream it / see an error / etc., let me know.
Happy Pride! I had a long rambly paragraph of stuff to put here, but maybe I’ll let the puzzle speak for itself.
Thanks to Nate Cardin (of Queer Qrosswords fame) and Christopher Adams (of arctan(x)words) for test solving!
Over on Will’s puzzle blog Half-Baked Puzzles we’ve got a freshly baked treat for you. (Well, actually, it’s been in the oven for months, but sometimes you want to cook for a long time at low heat. Anyway.) A fun puzzle with a wild grid. We each constructed half the grid, and then clued the other person’s side—see if you can guess who did what!
More puzzles soon, including some Pride puzzles. For whatever reason (pandemic exhaustion? things are still locked up here in Ontario…) I’ve been very slow to construct puzzles lately, which doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on them! But hey, shout out to the outlets (like Universal and USA Today and Inkubator and… am I forgetting anyone?) who have been highlighting queer constructors this month. Rah! (Oh, and of course go do more of Will’s puzzles, if you aren’t already.)
